Friday, January 6th 2023
GIGABYTE Shows Off AORUS Gen5 10000 NVMe SSD with a Large Heatsink
GIGABYTE in its 2023 International CES booth, showed off its upcoming flagship M.2 NVMe SSD, the AORUS Gen5 10000. Built in the M.2-2280 form-factor with PCI-Express 5.0 x4 interface and supporting NVMe 2.0 protocol, the drive is based on a Phison E26-series controller. coupled with the latest 3D TLC NAND flash. It comes in capacities of 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB. Sequential transfer-rates put out by GIGABYTE put the drive at up to 12 GB/s reads, with up to 10 GB/s sequential writes.
That's hardly the most striking aspect of this drive, which is a massive aluminium dual-fin-stack heatsink that uses two fin-stacks joined at the hip by a pair of heatpipes, in what is a callback to GIGABYTE's Nehalem motherboards that used such enormous heatsinks over the X58 northbridge. GIGABYTE calls this heatsink the AORUS Xtreme Thermal Guard. The company's current flagship is the AORUS 7000, which rocks a Gen4 interface, offering up to 7 GB/s reads, with up to 5 GB/s writes.
That's hardly the most striking aspect of this drive, which is a massive aluminium dual-fin-stack heatsink that uses two fin-stacks joined at the hip by a pair of heatpipes, in what is a callback to GIGABYTE's Nehalem motherboards that used such enormous heatsinks over the X58 northbridge. GIGABYTE calls this heatsink the AORUS Xtreme Thermal Guard. The company's current flagship is the AORUS 7000, which rocks a Gen4 interface, offering up to 7 GB/s reads, with up to 5 GB/s writes.
23 Comments on GIGABYTE Shows Off AORUS Gen5 10000 NVMe SSD with a Large Heatsink
Soon we gonna see laptops getting burnt by these kind of drives.
Future build will be a game of choice : this Gigabyte M2 or the Asus Noctua 4080 ?
Both won't fit ! :)
Only problem now would be the 6 slot GPU :slap:
For most users the motherboard heatsinks will do just fine. I've already done the testing in the lab with E26 and several popular motherboards. For those that want more cooling for DirectStorage, workstation work and so on, there are larger coolers. ASRock even designed low-cost active coolers for all Gen5 M.2 slots that fit on motherboards.
The fans everyone sees in the pictures are right around 40dba, so a typical Noctua fan noise level. If you need something quieter than that, the liquid coolers will not be far behind from 3rd parties.
Yeah reminds me of @freeagent thermalright I believe ? heatsinks he got and couldn't fit in at least one board ?
The fan models are a lot better at least mine worked well when I used them which I don't use m.2 anymore seeing a swap os's way to much to leave a permanent m.2 installed using all of them.
Amazon.com: Advancing Gene M.2 NVMe Cooler Heatsink with 20mm PWM Fan (3rd Gen): Electronics
Mine fit, but with FC140 I couldn’t use one on the top slot, if I use PA120 there is no problem.. FC140 has some beef hangin off the side :D
I agree with the general point of your post though.
Damn you Intel.