Thursday, February 29th 2024
Nextorage Launches "X Series" PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD
Nextorage Corporation's President, Katsuyuki Honda, has announced that the company will start selling its PCIe Gen 5.0-compliant NVMe SSDs "X Series" this month. The PCIe 5.0-compliant X Series is equipped with a high-performance controller and advanced NAND flash for unparalleled high-speed performance, making it ideal for professional use cases that require high-load processing, such as 4K/8K content creators and data scientists, as well as for users pursuing high-end gaming environments. It is ideal for users who pursue high-end gaming environments.
The NN5PRO-2000 is ideal for professional use cases such as 4K/8K content creators and data scientists who require high-load processing, as well as for users pursuing high-end gaming environments. Maximum read speed of 12,400 MB/s, maximum write speed of 11,800 MB/s—this is the measured values of Nextorage's NN5PRO-2 TB model.
Dual heat sinks for optimal temperature management
Dual heat sinks cool the controller and flash separately. The Gen 5 SSD, which generates high heat, achieves optimal temperature management by balancing cooling to a temperature that ensures the reliability of each.
Space-saving design in pursuit of cooling efficiency
The unique "two-story structure + heat pipe" design saves space and prevents interference with other devices. In addition, the use of heat pipes distributes heat evenly within the heat sink for more efficient cooling. Patent pending. Please check the external dimensions of your motherboard before purchasing.
Optimized TIM (Thermal Interface Material) for each part
The thickness of the thermal pad is optimized for each IC chip to ensure accurate contact with the heat sink, effectively transferring heat and maximizing performance. In addition, thermal grease is used in the controller section to lower thermal resistance and efficiently transfer heat from the controller to the heat sink.
Quiet & Power-saving Fan-less Heat Sink
Fan-less heat sinks do not increase power consumption or generate noise. Since there are no moving parts like heat sinks with fans, durability is improved and stable cooling performance is provided over the long term.
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Specification sheet:
Learn more about the X Series here.
Sources:
Nextorage, Storage Newsletter
The NN5PRO-2000 is ideal for professional use cases such as 4K/8K content creators and data scientists who require high-load processing, as well as for users pursuing high-end gaming environments. Maximum read speed of 12,400 MB/s, maximum write speed of 11,800 MB/s—this is the measured values of Nextorage's NN5PRO-2 TB model.
Dual heat sinks cool the controller and flash separately. The Gen 5 SSD, which generates high heat, achieves optimal temperature management by balancing cooling to a temperature that ensures the reliability of each.
Space-saving design in pursuit of cooling efficiency
The unique "two-story structure + heat pipe" design saves space and prevents interference with other devices. In addition, the use of heat pipes distributes heat evenly within the heat sink for more efficient cooling. Patent pending. Please check the external dimensions of your motherboard before purchasing.
The thickness of the thermal pad is optimized for each IC chip to ensure accurate contact with the heat sink, effectively transferring heat and maximizing performance. In addition, thermal grease is used in the controller section to lower thermal resistance and efficiently transfer heat from the controller to the heat sink.
Fan-less heat sinks do not increase power consumption or generate noise. Since there are no moving parts like heat sinks with fans, durability is improved and stable cooling performance is provided over the long term.
- NN5PRO-1TB1BH: $239.99 (1 TB)
- NN5PRO-2TB1BH: $399.99 (2 TB)
Specification sheet:
9 Comments on Nextorage Launches "X Series" PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD
A 2 story monstrosity heat sink, unknown controller & nand, all for an outrageous price....
a.very.hArD.PaSs....:(
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With the rated max power draw of 11 W, the bottom heat sink should be plenty if there was a tiny bit of airflow, even without the heat pipe. But with this design blocking most of the airflow, the heat sink is really more of a heat reservoir to absorb short bursts of heat and slowly dissipate the heat without airflow. If mounted like in the picture next to a graphics card, this thing will overheat and throttle quickly. This is a gimmicky product with poor engineering.
Beyond this product specifically, it's time to abandon the silly M.2 standard for desktops. High performance SSDs should really be mounted on a PCIe card and potentially have a tiny fan if needed. While users can always buy an adapter for PCIe 4x -> M.2, even expensive motherboards usually don't offer all the PCIe lanes through PCIe slots. This nonsense needs to stop.It tells you everything you need to know about the quality level of this product ;)
But for consumer drives, even Gen 4 is almost a gimmick. They offer high speed for shorter bursts before they throttle down, and their overall speed also decreases as they get fuller. In real world benchmarks even the trusty old Samsung 970 Pro (the last consumer MLC drive) still manages to perform among the latest consumer drives, but that one can't be bought any more.
If all you need is a consumer grade drive for an OS drive or a game drive, then I don't see much reason to go beyond something like a WD Black SN770 or SN850X, both at ~$0.08/GB (current US prices for reference). And for an OS drive, 500 GB is going to be plenty for even most prosumers. Also keep in mind that a lot of these "unknown" SSD vendors which have popped up in the last few years are just selling "white label" products at a premium price, no wonder they perform roughly the same? :rolleyes:
For those who do any kind of productive work, especially if your time somehow equates money, then enterprise drives should be the preferred option. These are obviously much more reliable, offers sustained performance and power-loss protection. Samsung PM9A3 costs ~$0.15/GB and there are many options up to the super high performance ones like Kioxia CM7-R/CM7-V (international price unknown, but based on my local pricing I would guess ~$0.30-0.40/GB, but they will need an adapter cable though).
Despite this much smarter option, I see typical YouTube creators in their videos do 2 or 4 overpriced consumer drives in RAID 0 for short bursts of fun and terrible reliability, when they could have opted for an enterprise drive at that price.
ReRam is superior to flash in all ways technical.
It is only flash's scale of production that makes it cheaper.
(Although, I would buy something like this if I had to replace an M2 today.)