We've lamented the endless thirst for "Call of Duty" discs, but the cold truth of the matter is that the game (as a whole) isn't getting smaller. Fortunately, storage solutions are getting bigger. For consumers, none are as large as Team Group's new QX, which reaches a whopping 15.3 terabytes.

Team Group says it wants to "revolutionize the consumer-grade 2.5-inch SATA SSD market" with a "whopping 15.3TB specification."

A trip to Newegg will reveal that 8TB is the largest capacity SSD available for purchase (see Sabrent's Rocket Q and Samsung's 870 Evo).

Incidentally, this is not the largest capacity SSD on the planet; in July, Nimbus announced a 100TB SSD, which ships in a 3.5-inch form factor and is intended for data centers. [As a 2.5-inch SATA SSD, the focus here is on capacity for the consumer rather than raw speed; the QX consists of 3D quad-level cell (QLC) NAND flash memory, with sequential read performance of up to 560 MB/sec and sequential write performance of up to rated at 480 MB/sec. [These figures are not far behind faster NVMe models, especially those utilizing the PCIe 4.0 bus. At this time, Sabrent is leading with the Rocket 4 Plus, which is also new, and delivers up to 7,000 MB/sec and 6,850 MB/sec for sequential reads and writes, respectively.

Nevertheless, for general purpose computing and even gaming, the actual performance difference between a 2.5" SATA SSD and a high-end NVMe SSD is currently only a few seconds on a loading screen. That may change as game developers focus on faster SSDs (the next generation of game consoles will all make the leap to SSD storage, and Nvidia will introduce DirectStorage acceleration with Ampere), but it's a "wait and see "

As for endurance, the QX is capable of 2,560 terabytes written (TBW). The Team Group also emphasizes that it supports Windows TRIM optimization, a standard feature of SSDs.

Of note is the price, $3,990, which is about $0.26 per gigabyte. For reference, the cheapest 1TB SATA SSD currently available on Newegg is another Team Group model, the GX2. It is priced at $79.99, which works out to about $0.08 per gigabyte.