The manufacturer Gigabyte is ready to launch its new generation of AORUS SSDs with the AORUS Gen5 10000. With them, they promise users high speeds capable of reaching 12,5 GB/s and capacities of up to 4 TB. SSD storage is about to enter the era of PCIe 5.0 use now that there are Intel motherboards and in a few weeks AMD with said transfer protocol.
With this, a new performance barrier will be established to which hardware manufacturers can aspire. With its first SSD using PCIe 5.0, Gigabyte plans to offer sequential read speeds of up to 12,5 GB/s, along with sequential write speeds of up to 10 GB/s. There are plans to release this SSD with capacities per drive of up to 4TB.
GIGABYTE enters PCIe 5.0 with its super-fast AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD
Gigabyte has officially revealed its AORUS Gen5 10.000 SSD, the company's first NVMe SSD to break the 10GB/s speed barrier. This drive is up to 55% faster than its predecessor based on the PCIe 4.0 protocol, which requires the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0 to function properly and to its full potential.
With the introduction of AMD's Ryzen 7000 series processors and AM5 motherboard platform later this month, the time has come for Gigabyte to launch its first PCIe 5.0 storage device. While Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake platform already supports PCIe 5.0, its support was limited. This left storage manufacturers with little reason to create compatible SSDs if only a small number of Intel users use it. With the release of Ryzen 7000, many more people are expected to move to a motherboard that has said PCIe 5.0 and can take advantage of the read and write speeds. Now it remains that software, especially games, can be optimized to make the most of those speeds.
Gigabyte has confirmed that its first PCIe 5.0 drives will be based on Phison's PS5026-E26 SSD controller, which will be combined with 3D TLC flash memory and LPDDR4 DRAM cache. Gigabyte hasn't revealed the price of its AORUS 10.000 SSD, but it has included benchmark data to make sure they deliver on the speeds they promise.
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