Monday, February 3rd 2020
Mushkin Launches PILOT-E Series NVMe SSDs
Mushkin has announced availability of their updated PILOT-E NVMe M.2 SSDs, which build upon their previously released PILOT family of SSDs. The PILOT-E are offered in the M.2 2280 form-factor, and make use of the PCIe 3.0 x4 interface to achieve speeds of up to 3,500 MB/s sequential reads and 3,100 MB/s sequential writes. The PILOT-E SSDs make use of Silicon Motion's SM2262EN" controller, which supports up to 8 NAND channels for increased throughput which connects to the PILOT-E's 3D TLC NAND.
The PILOT-E family of NVMe SSDs will be available in capacities ranging from 500 GB up to 2 TB, which seems about right for current market trends. The 500 GB model will feature the lowest performance figures at 3,500 MB/s sequential reads,2,300 MB/s sequential writes, random reads at 344,400 IOPS, random writes at 343,000 IOPS, and a write endurance rated at 350 TBW. The PILOT-e counts with SLC cache for improved performance, as well as LDPC ECC, end-to-end protection, global wear leveling, static data refresh, HMB, and AES 256-bit encryption. MTBF is set at 1.5 million hours, and typical warranty is set at three years. I'm seeing pricing starting at $74,99 for the 500 GB version and $249.99 for the 2 TB one.
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via Guru3D, Amazon.com
The PILOT-E family of NVMe SSDs will be available in capacities ranging from 500 GB up to 2 TB, which seems about right for current market trends. The 500 GB model will feature the lowest performance figures at 3,500 MB/s sequential reads,2,300 MB/s sequential writes, random reads at 344,400 IOPS, random writes at 343,000 IOPS, and a write endurance rated at 350 TBW. The PILOT-e counts with SLC cache for improved performance, as well as LDPC ECC, end-to-end protection, global wear leveling, static data refresh, HMB, and AES 256-bit encryption. MTBF is set at 1.5 million hours, and typical warranty is set at three years. I'm seeing pricing starting at $74,99 for the 500 GB version and $249.99 for the 2 TB one.
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"The PILOT-e counts with SLC cache for improved performance,"
I think the drive "comes" with SLC cache.
Not even getting into the comma use. Feels gratuitous. :p
As with other things, like USB-C, DDR5, etc, the sooner moar mfgr's start making moar of the newer gen devices (pcie 4), the sooner we will get moar mobos, gpu's ect that can utilize the increased bandwidth & performance.....
Chicken & egg concept, I know, but just sayin :)
Heck, here is the review I read, from October:
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mushkin-pilot-e-m.2-nvme-ssd,6345.html
This is one of the only drives to feature OPAL support on decent SMI controllers. I know, I did my research. They feature either Micron or SK Hynix DRAM chips, for the curious.
They are also double sided in the 2TB variant, which makes heatsinks interesting...I mean more layers is likely more reliable because they use a larger node, so technically there is some value to the consumer.
She's been in my main system seeing quite a bit of writes, since then:
I just don't think there is a good spot for these, honestly. I prefer BELOW the GPU. Heat rising off the GPU tends to warm these things up. Whereas if it is below the GPU, it doesn't get as much heated air across it. All depends on airflow too of course... but generally, I would imagine below it (far below it) is best for not sucking up GPU heat.