64 TB and up to 26 GB / s – that’s what the fastest commercial SSD Accelsior 8M2 can do

The OWC company has just presented the Accelsior 8M2, i.e. apparently the fastest and smallest commercial SSD “drive”. “Apparently“, Because according to a company that went a little over the marketing, calling a solid matrix for $ 799” SSD “.

Premiere of Accelsior 8M2. Up to eight 8 TB drives at your fingertips

However, after connecting the Accelsior 8M2 to primarily desktop Mac Pro computers, because they were designed with them in mind, this PCIe x16 card will be able to function as a single drive. The company announced that this gem is compatible with macOS 11 Big Sur, Macbook M1, Windows 10 and Linux, and support for RAID 0/1/4/5/1 + 0 (10) on Mac, as well as RAID 0/1 for computers with Windows via SoftRAID.

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The Accelsior 8M2 with heatsink and fan includes a total of eight separate NVMe M.2 SSD slots, all of which operate at full PCIex4 bandwidth. In its most expensive variant (8 Aura P12 Pro M.2 drives, 8 TB each), this expansion card costs $ 12,999, which translates into a price ratio of $ 0.20 per GB. In such a configuration, it is no wonder that it requires additional power from 6-pin PCIe.