How much storage do you need in a single desktop PC? If your answer is “over 200 terabytes,” you might be interested in Ultran’s latest PCIe storage card. This gadget can cram an incredible 28—yes, twenty-eight—M.2 drives into a space about the size of a larger graphics card, sharing data over a complex Broadcom PCIe 5.0 switch.
The card can handle data transfers at just below 110 gigabytes per second, according to the company’s promo materials at Computex (according to Tom’s Hardware). The 400-watt card is absolutely ravenous for power in terms of storage, though it also includes a built-in cooling system with a radiator and fan. Its theoretical maximum capacity, using 8TB cards in all of its 80mm bays, is an incredible 224 terabytes.
That’s enough to store the latest Call of Duty game about two thousand times, if such a thing strikes your fancy… though anyone tempted to max out that capacity is probably dealing with high-quality video files or LLM training data. I hope whatever you’re doing with all that data pays well, because the Ultran 28-slot M.2 PCIe adapter is expected to cost $3,000 USD when it launches this summer.
Further reading: Useful upgrades for your PC’s unused PCIe slots