Friday, October 6th 2023
Silicon Power Set to Unveil Groundbreaking PCIe Gen 5 SSD, the XS80
Silicon Power (SP) is thrilled to announce its inaugural participation at the renowned Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) from October 6-8. Together with Mwave and Umart, the company's distributors in Australia, SP will offer exclusive promotions to gaming enthusiasts. The company will also showcase its cutting-edge gaming solutions, including the debut of its groundbreaking product, the XPOWER XS80 PCIe Gen 5 SSD. Taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), PAX provides the perfect backdrop for SP to unveil its latest innovation, further solidifying the brand's commitment to delivering high-performance storage solutions for gamers.
Game-Changing Gen 5 Performance with the XS80
The XS80 offers exceptional gaming performance with the latest PCIe Gen 5 technology, NVMe 2.0 support, and 232-layer 3D NAND flash, delivering twice the data transfer rate of Gen 4 and four times that of Gen 3.
It reaches mind-blowing read speeds up to 10,000 MB/s for instant load times and smooth gameplay, especially in open-world games. It also reaches incredibly impressive write speeds up to 10,000 MB/s, which speeds up installations, cut progress saving time, and reduce in-game stuttering. This SSD features active cooling with a custom-crafted aluminium alloy heatsink, intelligent thermal regulation technology, and SP Toolbox software to maintain stable performance and prevent overheating. It's available in 1 TB and 2 TB, making it ideal for gamers with large libraries and multitasking needs.
Upgrade for Less with Exclusive Online Promotions
In partnership with Mwave and Umart, gaming enthusiasts can take advantage of exclusive online promotions until October 8. SP will be offering big discounts of up to 20% off on some of its latest SSDs and DRAM. This includes three solutions that are sure to take gaming experiences to record-breaking heights: the XPOWER XS70 PCIe Gen 4 SSD and the US75 PCIe Gen 4 SSD which are compatible with the PS5, and the UD90 PCIe Gen 4 M.2 2230 SSD which is compatible with the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. Visit SP at booth #2400 to get a hands-on look at these products, plus many other game-enhancing solutions.
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Silicon Power
Game-Changing Gen 5 Performance with the XS80
The XS80 offers exceptional gaming performance with the latest PCIe Gen 5 technology, NVMe 2.0 support, and 232-layer 3D NAND flash, delivering twice the data transfer rate of Gen 4 and four times that of Gen 3.
Upgrade for Less with Exclusive Online Promotions
In partnership with Mwave and Umart, gaming enthusiasts can take advantage of exclusive online promotions until October 8. SP will be offering big discounts of up to 20% off on some of its latest SSDs and DRAM. This includes three solutions that are sure to take gaming experiences to record-breaking heights: the XPOWER XS70 PCIe Gen 4 SSD and the US75 PCIe Gen 4 SSD which are compatible with the PS5, and the UD90 PCIe Gen 4 M.2 2230 SSD which is compatible with the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. Visit SP at booth #2400 to get a hands-on look at these products, plus many other game-enhancing solutions.
27 Comments on Silicon Power Set to Unveil Groundbreaking PCIe Gen 5 SSD, the XS80
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I am still very sceptical of course of the value in upgrading to any of this stuff from an existing fast NVME, I feel its rapidly diminishing returns unless its a optimised workflow that specifically needs this kind of storage.
Thats why we have people asking when is 4TB coming, as I assume they will upgrade for capacity reasons.
"I feel the need, the need, for (more) supppeeed" -Maverick & Goose
But just think, as soon as these drives get a little faster, you can turn off or remove your entire home heating system and use the money you save to upgrade your A/C :) /s
So important :D, greatest addon there is support for mechanical drives :D
Bad puns aside, SP is just another dirt cheap Chinese vendor. Had fair stack of SP drives in my hands. Neither was even remotely decent in terms of performance or reliability in reality. Stickers and paper are very patient, you can write any garbage on them.
At this moment in time M.2 rapidly becomes obsolete standard. Enterprise abandons it in droves for new form factors like E.3. I don't get it who would buy drives like these, when they can draw like 20W of power in such small footprint. Its madness without metric ton of airflow or liquid cooling. M.2 was supposed to be small connector with very little footprint for laptops and microdevices. Now they are so fat and ginormous it makes no sense to get one. Want something which won't melt under its own performance then get U.3 drive in 15mm variety + cable and adapter. It's much, much easier to keep cool. Me personally not getting anything M.2 above Gen.4, not that I'm very interested in Gen 4, because there is 0 performance difference between Ge3,4,5 unless you literally trash the drive relentlessly with TB of sequential writes every day (by design you need enterprise grade drive for this with at least 1DWPD rating). Sequential Reads/Writes is something that home user (Gaming-type) does about 0.05% across whole lifespan of drive, which makes 7000 or 10000MB value meaningless.
I don't see the need for gen 5 in my case (gaming, light productivity), I'd rather take the lower energy consumption, passive cooling (albeit gen 5 is getting there too like shown) and price of gen 4
directstorage 1.x works wonder with a PS5 compatible SSD (> 5.5Gbps).
For servers and people with extremely demanding IO workloads it's totally understandable tho.
At one point I will upgrade of course, if we all said that a intel core duo was enough we would have 0 innovations but, like DDR5, it will truly shine in multiple years price and performance wise.