"New PCIe 4.0 card offers 168TB storage with 21 SSDs"
Apex Storage has announced its X21 add-in card (AIC) that can hold up to 21 8TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs, with sequential read and write speeds of up to 30.5 and 26.5GBps, respectively. The AIC works in a standard PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and supports QLC, TLC, MLC, and Intel Optane drives. The product will cost $2,800 and is aimed at businesses for use in NAS or SAN arrays, 8K video editing, artificial intelligence and machine-learning training, and other enterprise use cases.