Sabrent is no stranger to creating extreme storage solutions, created in collaboration with Apex Storage. A clear example of this is the gigantic AIC (add-in card) Apex However, it is a PCIe 4.0 interface card, so the 168 TB of supported memory cannot reach the maximum speeds available on the market.
How to solve this age-old problem? Well, by developing an equally huge card that works on PCIe Gen 5.0, of course. This is how the new phantasmagorical is born Sabrent Apex X16 Rocket 5 Destroyer, and today we can give you its first benchmark data. As you can see, this new Gen 5 card from Apex can accommodate 16 4TB M.2 SSDs, for a maximum capacity of 64TB of the fastest Gen 5 SSDs on the market.
The card uses a single-slot PCIe x16 Gen 5 slot, leaving plenty of room for other cards or even another X16, which can be combined with the first. The new card can also be combined with other cards in the Apex series, such as the Sabrent Apex X21 Destroyer. The most surprising thing, however, are the speeds: the Sabrent Apex X16 Rocket 5 AIC can reach speeds of 56 GiB/s in sequential reading and 54 GiB/s in sequential writing. For 4K random IOPS, it can reach 20 million 4K reads and 19 million writes IOPS. For comparison, a single PCIe Gen 5 SSD, like the new PNY CS3150-HS, achieves sequential read speeds of 11,500 MB/s and sequential write speeds of 10,000 MB/s.
The Sabrent Apex X16 Rocket 5 will be available soon, at an overall affordable price: only €1,700 shipping included. Orders should be delivered in August 2024: are you ready to buy it?
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