Wow! That's the only sane reaction I had when I saw the RocketQ Battleship, the crazy product Sabrent teased on Facebook in January and now is about to release. I mean, 64TB of fast SSD storage on a HighPoint RAID controller with eight NVMe ports... two, please...

Sabrent did not (and still has not) announced a release date, but there is now a RocketQ Battleship product page on HighPoint's website (via TechPowerUp), where the device is listed as "coming soon."

"Built around Sabrent's diverse Rocket series of NVMe SSDs, Elite Class AIC drives offer unprecedented storage capacity and class-leading versatility," HighPoint says.

Configuratively, the array of 8TB Rocket Q SSDs in the image above (why the SSDs are styled "Rocket Q" and the battleship "RocketQ" is a good question) are PCIe 3.0 models. However, the HighPoint SSD7540 is a PCIe 4.0 x16 controller, supporting up to 64TB of storage, and Sabrent notes that the faster PCIe 4.0 Rocket 4 Plus SSDs work just fine. This SSD earned our Editor's Pick award for its fast performance (both synthetic and real-world) combined with relatively cool temperatures.

The decision comes down to speed versus capacity; Sabrent's Rocket 4 Plus is rated at up to 7,100 MB/s sequential read and 6,600 MB/s sequential write, but has a maximum capacity of 4TB. Rocket Q, on the other hand, is rated at 3,300 MB/sec read and 2,900 MB/sec write, not quite as fast as PCIe 4.0, but scalable up to 8 TB.

HighPoint intends to offer the RocketQ Battleship in its Fast n' Little (FnL) line of AIC (add-in card) solutions, with a full-length heatsink and dual fans to suppress temperatures.

No price has been mentioned yet, but Amazon lists the controller alone at $1,006 and the 8TB Rocket Q SSDs at $1,300 each. In other words, you are buying a little over $11,400 worth of hardware. Even with the discount for buying in bulk, it would still cost more than $10,000, probably closer to $11,000. So never mind, I'll stick with the 2TB SSD setup.