Tuesday, September 8th 2020
GALAX Announces PCIe 4.0 Hall Of Fame Extreme SSD
GALAX have recently unveiled the Hall Of Fame (HOF) Extreme PCIe 4.0 SSD. This is a second-generation PCIe 4.0 SSD featuring the Phison PS5018-E18 controller which allows for speeds which near the limits of PCIe 4.0. The GALAX Hall Of Fame Extreme SSD promises sequential read and write speeds of 7000 MB/s and 6850 MB/s respectively. These claimed speeds are in line with other SSD's utilizing the PS5018-E18 controller such as the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus which also uses TLC NAND flash. The GALAX HOF Extreme will be offered in 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB versions, and all feature premium designs with mirrored heatsink, pricing and availability were not announced.
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pioneersci (via OC3D)
19 Comments on GALAX Announces PCIe 4.0 Hall Of Fame Extreme SSD
First - Optane as it stands is waiting for 2nd gen refresh called Alder Stream. Not yet available. Buying 1st gen Optane at this point would be stupid.
Second - Since supply of 1st gen Optane has largely dried up the prices have also gone up.
Third - Optane has a very specific use case for workloads that benefit from ultra-low latency and insane durability. Only DRAM has lower latency and durability. So Optane is not for everyone.
Even when not taking these 3 factors into account Optane will always be Enterprise first product with a very high price per GB figure.
(It was also a reply to the previous poster's question about improved random IOPS - you won't be seeing much, if any at all on NAND, PCIe 4.0 or not.)
I really wish the P!NK version will be avaliable for the RTX 3080 right around or after lunch because the 3080 looks like the go to card for the price.
What i do like about Optane is that unlike NAND the capacity does not dictate speed. So a 250GB Optane is as fast as a 2TB one assuming controller etc are the same. While with NAND flash 250GB loses half it's speed due to lack of parralelism of dies. And with 100+ layer dies becoming more common this will start affecting 500GB models more and more too.
yummmmm...gimmmeeee pleeeze.,,,,at a decent price of course :D
and finally, pleeeze make some that are bigger than 1-2TB.
These new z490 asus boards the m.2 slot bays are pretty narrow no room for any m.2 with a heatsink on it so make sure the bugger will fit otherwise heatsink is coming off unless you get a pci-e m.2 card.
Software are often not optimized well and sometimes have strait up odd behavior like reading a large game assets in random 4k chunks instead of sequentially.
This especially true for Windows, I wonder if M$'s new DirectStorage might shake things up.