Seriously cool, PCIe NVME storage expansion card

[SpyderTracks]

This is so cool.

Can install up to 21 NVME drives on this bad boy and requires a PCIe x16 slot and supports Gen 4 NVMEs, any 8k video editors or Big Data Modellers take note!

Apex Storage X21 NVMe AIC

www.apexstoragedesign.com

 

[sck451]

I really can't see the use for this, cool as it is. Even if you really need 100TB+ of SSD space, there are more effective ways of accomplishing it than funnelling it all through a x16 slot by putting that many drives into RAID 0. Surely you just buy an Epyc server in reality...

 

[Scott]

That's wild

Wonder what the direct drive timing would be like on that

Wouldn't be able to make much use of it though as limited options with GPU & that card.

 

[TonyCarter]

Looks like it has 100 PCIe lanes, so the motherboard would need more than that to run the CPU and GPU (and anything else requiring a lane or two).

Wonder what level of motherboard/CPU would you need to be able to fully utilise 21 m.2 SSDs at full speed? Although I note the read/write throughput is 31GBps...so not the 105GBps you'd expect from 21 x 5GBps m.2 SSDs.