Gigabyte's new and eagerly awaited Aorus Gen5 10000 SSD is about to make its market debut and some e-commerce sites have already included it in their price lists. Among these we find Amazon and Newegg, which have proposed the top of the range with a capacity of 2TB, even if for the moment the wording "temporarily unavailable" is reported on Amazon.com. Instead, on Newegg the unit is currently in preorder at a price of $ 339.99 .
Photo Credit: Gigabyte Compared to the previous Aorus Gen4 7000s Prem, the new model offers higher performance, however, with a higher price. The previous generation offered maximum sequential read and write speeds of 7,000MB/s and 6,850MB/s, respectively. The new 2TB Aorus Gen5 10000, on the other hand, achieves sequential read and write speeds of 10,000MB/s and 9,500MB/s, respectively. Also, while the previous generation had 2GB of DDR4 cache, the new Gen5 has doubled the amount to 4GB LPDDR4.
Aorus Gen5 10000 1TB
Aorus Gen5 10000 2TB Interface PCI-Express 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0 PCI-Express 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0 Controller Phison E26 Phison E26 Form factor M.2 2280 (80 x 22 x 2.3mm) M.2 2280 (80 x 22 x 2.3mm) Capacity 1,000GB 2,000GB NAND 232-layer 3D TLC NAND Flash 232-layer 3D TLC NAND Flash Cache DDR External LPDDR4 2GB LPDDR4 4GB Sequential Read Speed Up to 9,500MB/s Up to 10,000MB/s s Sequential Write Speed Up to 8,500MB/s Up to 9,500MB/s Dimensions with heatsink 92×23.5×44.7mm 92×23.5×44.7mm MTBF / Warranty 1.6M hrs/700TBW 1.6 M ore / 1400TBW With the PCIe 5.0 interface, which opens up new performance possibilities for SSDs but also increases heat production, Gigabyte has included their own M.2 Thermal Guard Xtreme cooling solution with dual heatpipes to help stabilize thermal performance and prevent the SSD from prematurely throttling under load.
Currently, Gigabyte has not yet provided a date p severed regarding the actual availability of its 2TB Aorus Gen5 10000 (or for the cheaper 1TB version). It shouldn't be long though, as Newegg has already published the prices and is allowing customers to pre-order.