Next-gen SSD From Gigabyte Shows Off PCIe 4.0's Potential

Saanvi Araav - Jun 11, 2019

The new SSD from Gigabyte could reach the speed of 5 GB/s, 50% faster than the current NVMe drives.

AMD has launched its new 3rd gen Ryzen processors based on Zen 2 architect in a recent event. During the event, they also introduced the next generation controllers of PCIe 4.0. To continue that trend, Gigabyte also launches it's first NVMe SSDs with PCIe 4.0 controllers which have shown amazing potential for the speed of this new technology.

AORUS NVMe

Aoruspciessd00 880x650 — AORUS NVMe has amazing reading and writing speeds.

AORUS NVMe of Gigabyte can reportedly reach the speed of 4,400 MB/s write and 5,000MB/s read speeds performance. That amazing performance is about double of write speed and 56% faster read speed of the current fastest NVMe SSDs available, the Samsung's 970 EVO.

But in fact, aside from Gigabyte, there are also other manufacturers that have used PCI 4.0 technology in their storage devices. Corsair has released its NVMe SSD with the name MP600 that has similar performance with the AURUS NVMe. Technically speaking, both use the same controller and flash-memory chips ( PS5016-E16 and 3D TLC NAND).

Corsair Pcie 4 0 Ssd 1 100797568 Large — Corsair has released its NVMe SSD with the name MP600 that has similar performance with the AURUS NVMe.

Gigabyte also gives AURUS NVMe a heat spreader of full body type makes from copper. That heat spreader indicated that the devices may reach high temperature when it reaches the top speed. Gigabyte said its heatsink design will help bring the temperature of the whole device down around 14 percent.

The full suit

Screen Shot 2019 05 27 At 1 12 13 Pm — Everything above including the Ryzen chips, motherboard, and AORUS SSD will be available around this July.

They will sell the drive in 2 sizes: 2TB and 1TB. But in order to maximize the performance of the drive, you will have to pair it with the X570 motherboard of Gigabyte and one of those new processors from AMD. Everything above including the Ryzen chips, motherboard, and AORUS SSD will be available around this July. We don' know the price for this product yet, but since it features the latest technologies, we could expect a hefty price tag for it.