Sabrent Shows Off An Insane 21 Rocket 4 Plus 8 TB SSDs Equipped To A Single APEX Storage AIC For 168 TB Capacities
SSD manufacturer, Sabrent, has shown off 21 of its Rocket 4 Plus 8 TB SSDs attached to a single Apex Storage AIC for up to 168 TB capacities.
Earlier this year, we discussed the new company Apex Storage and its PCIe Gen 4 AIC that can support an impressive 21 M.2 solid state drives, 100 PCIe lanes, and 168 TB of capacity per card. The card did not have much information to go on previously other than the company's product page. On Thursday, the card appeared again, but this time on Sabrent's Twitter page, showing the card with 21 of their own Rocket 4 Plus 8 TB NVMe SSDs.
The tweet below from Sabrent offers a few photos of the Apex Storage Apex X21 PCIe Gen 4 AIC with the 21 Rocket 4 Plus SSDs installed.
At Sabrent, we run on the cutting edge of technology. Working with Apex, we received one of these new cards and currently running it through tests. We call this the Sabrent Apex X21 Destroyer. 21X 8TB SSDs for 168TB of storage on single card ! pic.twitter.com/xU3PooZ9f4
— Sabrent America (@Sabrent) April 13, 2023
The Apex Storage Apex X21 card does not appear to have changed much in design since we last talked about it, but it looks like it's no longer a conceptual product if early prototypes are being sent out to SSD makers. After heading over to Apex Storage's company website, no pricing is shown except for the customer service bot at the bottom of the screen, informing that the initial pricing for the card is $2,800.
Heading over to Sabrent's product page for the Rocket 4 Plus SSD pictured in the tweet, you can see that an 8TB card will set users back $1,099.99, a sale price compared to the regular pricing of $1,499.99. Grabbing out the calculator, the retail price of the card with the SSDs installed will cost a user
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