Viking Technology Announces Seriously Beefy 50TB UHC-Silo Enterprise SSD

Being a PC gamer can be tough, sometimes. We’d love to store our 50TB worth of games on a single drive, but alas, no such solution exists. Well, it hasn’t existed until now, that is. Viking Technology, a company catering to the enterprise market, has just announced two new UHC-SILO SSD models, available in 25TB and 50TB densities.

That’s quite something at a time when most of us couldn’t imagine having more than 1TB of SSD storage in our rigs. 50TB, or even 25TB, is an incredible amount of data. Imagine this as a workstation drive; your entire project could be stored on this. If not, you could always pick up a couple and go the RAID route. Imagine that – 100 TB RAID 0. Impressive, but also a mind-boggling amount of data to lose in one fell swoop should disaster strike.

Viking’s UHC-SILO uses planar MLC NAND, which makes its 50TB density even more impressive (not that 50TB would be unimpressive for TLC even still), and is spec’d at 500MB/s read, 350MB/s write, and boasts IOPS performance of 60K and 15K for read and write, respectively.

Because this is a drive targeted at the enterprise, it should come as little surprise that it’s equipped with a SAS interface. Even if this isn’t a drive targeting regular consumers, or even hardcore gamers, to see 50TB of fast NAND in a drive the size of a normal hard drive is downright impressive. Even if it’d take about 27 hours to read the entire drive’s worth of data at its peak 500MB/s…

Pricing information for this drive isn’t easy to find, and it’s no surprise given the target market, so let’s do some inaccurate math: Samsung’s 850 EVO 1TB is priced at $320 USD at Amazon, meaning a 50TB version of the same model would cost at least $16,000, without any sort of discount or premium.

That raises an important question: which is more important; a 50TB SSD, or your car?