The interesting thing about the PCIe 5.0 interface is that it has been available in the market for almost a year, but there is no hardware for it. Currently, Intel Alder Lake processors already offer support for PCIe 5.0, but there are no compatible components, which sounds like a bad joke, but it’s a reality.
Gigabyte presents its SSD based on PCIe 5.0
Surely you know Gigabyte well, as it is one of the most important manufacturers of motherboards, graphics cards and other components on the market. It offers different solutions for video game fans under its AORUS product line. This range is extended with new storage units extremely fast.
The company announced the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD, which will use the new data interface and new memories. More precisely it will be based on PCIe 5.0 and will use new high-speed 3D TLC NAND Flash memories. As noted, these new units will be up to 55% faster than current SSD hard drives PCIe 4.0.
Gigabyte indicates that units ranging from 1 TB to 4 TB. The truth is that it is expected that the first units to be launched will be 4TB, then the rest will arrive.
What is interesting is that this storage unit will arrive without a heatsink, which will have to be purchased separately or we can use the one from the motherboard itself. Gigabyte notes that they offer their proprietary SSD Toolkit with these drives. This allows the user to see the status of the disk in real time, being able to monitor the capacity and temperature of the disk.
The company showed a capture of the performance of this unit, which is very interesting. According to this, the unit will offer approximately one read speed up to 12,500 GB/s and write speed up to 10,000 GB/s.
A hard drive with the best technology on the market
According to Gigabyte, state-of-the-art components will be used in these units. More importantly, it will be based on the Phison PS5026-E26 controller. This controller offers 8 channels to offer the maximum possible flow rates.
This unit incorporates the news 3D TLC NAND Flash memories with more than 200 layers and a frequency of 2400 MT/s. Moreover, it uses cache memory, specifically by using an LPDDR4 memory chip. The combination of these three elements allows this device to offer these speeds.
Gigabyte says these new AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD hard drives are fully compatible with the company’s motherboards with Z690 chipsets. Remember that this chipset is intended for Intel Alder Lake processors, the first to support PCIe 5.0.
What we don’t know at the moment is the price of these new PCIe 5.0-based storage units. Considering the price at which PCIe 4.0 SSDs were launched, we can expect a price above 1,000 dollars for this 4TB drive.
