Micron's introduced the first PCIe 5 60 TB SSD and it could house 375 Stalker 2 installs, or even better, 35,294 Crab Champions installs

The Micron 6650 ION E3.S PCIe 5.0 60 TB SSD on a black background

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We've long recommended ensuring your drive is nice and large so you don't run out of space given seemingly ever-increasing game install sizes. Stalker 2, for instance, just had its install size upped to 160 GB in the latest system requirements. Oof.

And while 60 TB might be a bit much—we usually recommend a 2 TB SSD, or 1 TB if you're on a budget—that hasn't stopped Micron from unleashing the Micron ION 6550 into the world. This badboi is "the world’s fastest 60TB data center SSD and the industry’s first E3.S and PCIe Gen5 60TB SSD".

Datacentre boffins are likely to be happy with its efficiency, too, since it's "the world’s first 60TB SSD with OCP 2.5 support, introducing the active state power management (ASPM). This new feature allows the drive to idle at 4 watts in the L1 state versus 5 watts in the L0 state, improving energy efficiency up to 20% when idling."

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