Friday, August 19th 2022

Gigabyte Announces the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD with Capacities up to 4 TB

GIGABYTE Technology, one of the top global manufacturers of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, announces today the latest AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD with 10 GB/s read speed. Enhanced by the new generation PCIe 5.0 controller with ultra-fast 3D-TLC NAND Flash, AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD provides boosted performance of more than 55% over PCIe 4.0 SSDs and comes in 1 TB to 4 TB capacity variants using an M.2 2280 interface to deliver easy installation and superb capability. Additionally, the separate SSD and heatsink offers more flexibility in system build and thermal options for users. GIGABYTE's exclusive SSD Tool Box application provides users real-time status of SSD to leverage performance, thermal, stability and capability.

"With PCIe 5.0 support on new motherboard platform, the bandwidth and transfer performance are raised to the next level. As the first manufacturer to have both motherboards and SSD product lines in the market, GIGABYTE is also the first to unveil the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD. This new product brings blistering fast storage performance with ultra durability and compatibility to users for optimal quality and performance." said Jackson Hsu, Director of the GIGABYTE Channel Solutions Product Development Division.
K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics, said that Phison and GIGABYTE are long-term partners and have been cooperating since the SATA SSD era. The two companies have continually cooperated since PCIe Gen3 and Gen4, developing today's cutting-edge technology PCIe Gen5 SSD PS5026-E26 storage solution. PCIe Gen5 SSD is a technology that integrates high-speed transmission and storage, taking data transmission to the next level. During the E26 product verification stage, the two companies also encountered quite a few challenges. To address these challenges and accelerate the promotion of products to the market, the two companies set up a project team to conduct technical exchange and mutual verification. This kind of cooperation enabled both companies to combine their R&D strengths and create a superior storage solution. Phison is very pleased to help launch GIGABYTE's PCIe Gen5 SSD products and contribute to the high-speed computing ecosystem of PCIe Gen5.

AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD equips the latest Phison PS5026-E26 8-channel controller, providing users with the ultimate control of random read speed. Along with an over 200-layer stack structure, maximum 2400MT/s bandwidth 3D-TLC NAND Flash, and LPDDR4 cache design, AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD unleash the full potential of PCIe 5.0 performance with 10 GB/s ultra-fast access speed, which is a 40% increase over the last generation. Enhanced by the multi-core architecture PS5026-E26 controller, AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD not only improves AI multitasking operations, but takes content creators, gamers, and users eager for extreme performance to the next level.

At the same time, GIGABYTE R&D team continues to verify next generation NAND Flash and components, which can further boost performance and access speed to more than 12 GB/s. This prepares GIGABYTE to be the first-mover in the market while bringing users the premium performance of PCIe 5.0 SSD with distinguished power of GIGABYTE engineering.

Normally, high-speed SSDs generate massive amounts of heat during full speed operation, and thermal throttling is activated as a protection to prevent data loss and wear on the memory chips and controllers, however, it slows down the transfer rate and performance. As many of the new generation of motherboards already incorporate a built-in M.2 heatsink, the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD is specially designed to with an easily removable full-covered copper heatsink. Users can flexibly choose to use the built-in heatsink on their motherboards or the enclosed heatsink with AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD according to their needs.

The AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD features an NVMe M.2 interface design. To release the breakthrough performance of 10 GB/s read speed, PCIe 5.0 supported motherboards, GIGABYTE new generation motherboards, Z690 and above, are highly-recommended to take advantage of this new technology. Enhanced by R&D's professional adjustment, comprehensive verification and monitoring software, GIGABYTE motherboards with more stability and optimized performance are definitely the best choice for users.
Source: Gigabyte
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45 Comments on Gigabyte Announces the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD with Capacities up to 4 TB

#26
jesdals
I am looking forward to se how performance is going to scale with pcie 4
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#27
TheLostSwede
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jesdalsI am looking forward to se how performance is going to scale with pcie 4
I'd be surprised if there's any significant difference to the very best PCIe 4.0 drives, but maybe a little bit faster in some tests.
Denser NAND is what might make a difference, but it doesn't look like these first gen drives will have that.
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#28
bug
jesdalsI am looking forward to se how performance is going to scale with pcie 4
Nothing to wait for. This thing does 62 MB/s random reads. Current PCIe4 drives typically do anywhere between 60 and 95 MB/s.
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#29
jesdals
bugNothing to wait for. This thing does 62 MB/s random reads. Current PCIe4 drives typically do anywhere between 60 and 95 MB/s.
I am waiting for more drives to come out - looking forward for some Kingston product and WD - Have currently tried 4 gen 1 Corsair and Gigabyte and 4 gen 2 WD and Seagate - the later was a turn down and died after 8 months
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#30
DeathtoGnomes
TheLostSwedeI'd be surprised if there's any significant difference to the very best PCIe 4.0 drives, but maybe a little bit faster in some tests.
Denser NAND is what might make a difference, but it doesn't look like these first gen drives will have that.
its still early into pcie5 era, if speeds dont improve next year, why bother developing pcie6?
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#31
bug
DeathtoGnomesits still early into pcie5 era, if speeds dont improve next year, why bother developing pcie6?
For servers.
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#32
mohammed2006
Although 10k gb/s is tempting but i am Still waiting for ssd do more than 335mb 4k read my optane does to upgrade it 62mb is just 2 low i am afraid it will feel less responsive hope we get the toshiba ssd that spoused to answer optane for less price or gen 5 pcie optane
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#33
b1k3rdude
And while the sequentials are amazing, the 4kQD1 reads and writes are no better than my PCIe Gen3 Samsung 960 pro when it was new. So to upgrade my my 960 pro the SK hynix P4 looks to be the only option so far with R/W of 96 & 350MB/s. I look forward to the day when I see an NVME SSD get even half as fast as optane in 4KQD1 Reads which was 250-300MB/s.
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#34
mama
DeathtoGnomesThat 2nd one looks more like a USB hair dryer.
Looks cool. Where can I get one!
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#37
Tomgang
Forget passive cooling or active cooling for nvme ssd. 5 gen gets so dam hot, you need to water cool these darn things.

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#39
JcRabbit
b1k3rdudeI look forward to the day when I see an NVME SSD get even half as fast as optane in 4KQD1 Reads which was 250-300MB/s.
If you guys had the choice, would you prefer a Gen3 960GB Intel Optane 905P for your OS drive, or a Gen4 2TB Seagate Firecuda 530 ?
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#40
mohammed2006
JcRabbitIf you guys had the choice, would you prefer a Gen3 960GB Intel Optane 905P for your OS drive, or a Gen4 2TB Seagate Firecuda 530 ?
P5800x 800gb
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#41
JcRabbit
mohammed2006P5800x 800gb
Yeah, doh, but that is not in the choice. :)
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#42
bug
JcRabbitIf you guys had the choice, would you prefer a Gen3 960GB Intel Optane 905P for your OS drive, or a Gen4 2TB Seagate Firecuda 530 ?
The numbers are all in Optane's favor. But with limited compatibility and being discontinued, it's not an automatic pick for everyone.
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#43
JcRabbit
bugThe numbers are all in Optane's favor. But with limited compatibility and being discontinued, it's not an automatic pick for everyone.
I'm asking because I actually have an Optane 905P on my older system (Intel 9900K, DDR4, etc), and just recently upgraded to a Z690 system (12900K, DDR5, etc).

Since I needed to keep everything working while I migrated everything from the old to the new system, I added a Seagate 530 Firecuda as the main OS drive for the new system.

Now that the migration is complete I have a very expensive 905P doing basically nothing in my old system (I can replace it with a spare Gen3 970 EVO I have here to keep the old system going if necessary) and was wondering if I should replace the Gen4 530 in the new system with the Optane despite the latter being Gen3 (the 530 would then be relegated to holding my library of Steam games, of course).

It's just that doing this involves a lot of swapping stuff around and I'm not sure if it's worth it.
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#44
bug
JcRabbitI'm asking because I actually have an Optane 905P on my older system (Intel 9900K, DDR4, etc), and just recently upgraded to a Z690 system (12900K, DDR5, etc).

Since I needed to keep everything working while I migrated everything from the old to the new system, I added a Seagate 530 Firecuda as the main OS drive for the new system.

Now that the migration is complete I have a very expensive 905P doing basically nothing in my old system (I can replace it with a spare Gen3 970 EVO I have here to keep the old system going if necessary) and was wondering if I should replace the Gen4 530 in the new system with the Optane despite the latter being Gen3 (the 530 would then be relegated to holding my library of Steam games, of course).

It's just that doing this involves a lot of swapping stuff around and I'm not sure if it's worth it.
Yes, you'd be better off with Optane as your OS drive.
As I said above, SSDs have trouble doing 100MB/s random reads while Optane easily does 3x that. Of the things you do with your storage, the vast majority is random reads.
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#45
Tomorrow
bugThe numbers are all in Optane's favor. But with limited compatibility and being discontinued, it's not an automatic pick for everyone.
PCIe addon card versions should have no problems running on AMD systems.
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