A few weeks before CES 2022, the participants of the event are starting to announce their revolutionary new technologies, especially in the field of storage. Lightning-fast PCIe 5.0 SDDs are already talking about them.
Several companies have already announced their new generation of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, including Adata and Samsung. Adata’s prototype PCIe 5.0 SSDs have been dubbed Project Nighthawk and Project Blackbird. They will both support a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface as well as NVMe 2.0 protocol. The two drives will be available in capacities up to 8TB.
According to the company, the Nighthawk drive is equipped with a Silicon Motion SM2508 controller capable of offering sequential read / write speeds of up to 14 / 12Gb / s. To give you an idea of the performance this represents, it’s twice as fast as today’s best PCIe 4.0 SSDs. For its part, the Blackbird drive is equipped with an InnoGrit IG5666 controller which can reach 14/10 Gb / s.
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Samsung unveils its first PCIe 5.0 SSD for businesses
For its part, Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced memory technologies, announced that it has developed the PM1743 SSD for business servers, integrating the PCIe 5.0 interface with the Samsung’s advanced sixth-generation V-NAND technology.
The Samsung PM1743 SSD offers high read and write speeds up to 13,000MB / s and 6,600MB / s, which is significantly faster than its previous generation counterparts. Likewise, it can reach random read speeds of 2,500,000 IPOS (input / output operations per second) and a write speed of 250,000 IOPS. That’s between 70% and 90% more performance compared to the current generation.
Despite improved performance, the new PCIe 5.0 SSD also offers performance of 608MB / s per watt, which makes 30% more energy efficient compared to its predecessors. Different versions will be available in a wide variety of capacities ranging from 1.92 terabytes (TB) to 15.36 TB. In addition, the PM1743 will also be offered in the classic 2.5-inch format, as well as a 3-inch EDSFF (E3.S) format. For those who don’t know, this is an increasingly popular SSD format designed specifically for next-generation enterprise servers and data centers.
Source: The Verge