Friday, March 29th 2019
Galaxy Unveils HOF M.2 PCIe SSD with Heat-pipe Based Heatsink
High-end M.2 NVMe SSDs are beginning to come with integrated heatsinks as overheating controllers impact sustained performance. The latest such drive is a new edition of the Hall of Fame (HOF) M.2 PCIe series from Galaxy, which come with a chunky aluminium heatsink, only this one isn't just another hunk of metal. This heatsink uses a flattened copper heat pipe to pull heat from the drive's hot components and spread it evenly along both sides of the aluminium block. The heat pipe makes direct contact with the drive's Phison PS5012-E12 8-channel controller and Toshiba-made 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash chips.
The heatsink wraps around sideways of the drive and so it may not be a perfect fit for NVMe RAID cards with multiple M.2 slots side-by-side, although for most applications, such as the M.2 slot on the motherboard, the design could click. The drive comes in capacities of 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. All three models offer sequential read speeds of up to 3400 MB/s. The 1 TB and 2 TB models write at up to 2800 MB/s, while the 512 GB writes at up to 2000 MB/s. 4K random access performance of the 2 TB and 1 TB models are rated at up to 400,000 IOPS reads with up to 600,000 IOPS writes; and up to 400,000 IOPS reads with up to 540,000 IOPS writes for the 512 GB model. The drive is initially being launched in China, and could make its way to western markets under the Galax and KFA2 brands later this year.
The heatsink wraps around sideways of the drive and so it may not be a perfect fit for NVMe RAID cards with multiple M.2 slots side-by-side, although for most applications, such as the M.2 slot on the motherboard, the design could click. The drive comes in capacities of 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. All three models offer sequential read speeds of up to 3400 MB/s. The 1 TB and 2 TB models write at up to 2800 MB/s, while the 512 GB writes at up to 2000 MB/s. 4K random access performance of the 2 TB and 1 TB models are rated at up to 400,000 IOPS reads with up to 600,000 IOPS writes; and up to 400,000 IOPS reads with up to 540,000 IOPS writes for the 512 GB model. The drive is initially being launched in China, and could make its way to western markets under the Galax and KFA2 brands later this year.
35 Comments on Galaxy Unveils HOF M.2 PCIe SSD with Heat-pipe Based Heatsink
These M.2 drives aren't quite at that level yet, but I think that's where we're headed pretty soon... oh wait, there is this: www.cryorig.com/cx18_frostbit_us.php
:eek:
This one is cheaper
The flash however, NEEDS heat in order to increase switching speed. So if you cool down your controller and your flash, you're still net negative on performance usually.
Anyone know if it is made by galaxy also or some other mfgr ?
agree with above... here lies "Hall of Fame"
A tiny square heatsink on the controller itself is the only thing you need, and only if you run production workloads. Normally the typical burst operations of a desktop user are next to nothing.
So what you guys would choose for OS, Photoshop, games? Corsair Force MP300 240GB (58€), Patriot Viper VPN100 256GB (w/heatsink) (68€), WD Black SN750 250GB (80€).
Asking for a friend.