Exascend PE4 16TB E1.S SSD arrives with an enterprise price tag
Exascend’s PE4 16TB SSD has appeared on Amazon with a listed price of $15,935, which works out to about $996 per terabyte. The listing presents it as an M.2 NVMe drive with PCIe 4.0 x4, sequential read speeds up to 3,270 MB/s, and write speeds up to 2,980 MB/s. It is not very fast, but that’s not the primary feature of this drive. It’s the absurd 16TB capacity, and its price.
The bigger issue is that this is not really a consumer SSD. Exascend markets the PE4 series as an enterprise product designed for server workloads, space-constrained data centers, NAS, and workstation caching. The official product page also shows the M.2 2280 version topping out at 15.36TB, even though the Amazon listing advertises a 16TB model.
We haven’t really heard much about 16GB drives since Computex 2024, both AGI and Patriot presented 16TB M.2 drives. At the time, expected pricing for consumer 16TB M.2 models was projected to be around €2,000 based on then-current 8TB SSD pricing. It is, in fact, much higher.
Well, this is an enterprise drive, and it’s a standard M.2 form factor. It’s worth noting that Exascend offers both M.2 and E1.S variants and this is the M.2 variant specifically (contrary to what Amazon pictures may show).
Source: Amazon via Fanless Tech
