GIGABYTE Shows Off AORUS Gen5 10000 NVMe SSD with a Large Heatsink

[btarunr]

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.



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[TheLostSwede]

Rather this than a fan imho.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

oh my thats a big heatstink.

 

[Dimitriman]

When you want speed but it takes you back to a 3.5 inch footprint...

 

[robert3892]

Any info regarding availability?

 

[Broken Processor]

So if you have a vertical mounted GPU could be close or tight fit?

 

[zmeul]

Just go back to u.2 and get rid of this insanity and dumb board covers

 

[TheDeeGee]

The m.2 connector is already fragile, putting such a heatsink on it comes with great risks. No doubt you'll rip the connector of the PCB if you bump into that heatsino too hard.

 

[Chaitanya]

Rather this than a fan imho.

Even the MSI one is passive solution, much better than whiny solutions(which are bound to fail).

 

[Parn]

Oh my... M.2 heatsinks of this size beat the whole purpose of a M.2 drive. If they know the SSD is going to be so hot that it requires this kind of cooling just to be able to operate, why don't they make it into a 2.5" U.2. Leave M.2 for more power efficient drives.

Soon we gonna see laptops getting burnt by these kind of drives.

 

[evernessince]

Just go back to u.2 and get rid of this insanity and dumb board covers

The problem with U.2 in the consumer space is that PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 have problems with signal integrity over distance. A carrier card will work just fine but getting a cable that can maintain the signal is difficult.

 

[KrazyT]

What ? no RGB ?
Future build will be a game of choice : this Gigabyte M2 or the Asus Noctua 4080 ?
Both won't fit !

 

[Scrizz]

The problem with U.2 in the consumer space is that PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 have problems with signal integrity over distance. A carrier card will work just fine but getting a cable that can maintain the signal is difficult.

maybe let's go back to HHHL PCIe cards
Only problem now would be the 6 slot GPU

 

[evernessince]

maybe let's go back to HHHL PCIe cards
Only problem now would be the 6 slot GPU

Yep, plus some motherboards have terrible slot positioning and potential other tradeoffs like dropping your primary PCIe slot down to x8. I vote for just replacing SATA with SFF-8643.

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

The m.2 connector is already fragile, putting such a heatsink on it comes with great risks. No doubt you'll rip the connector of the PCB if you bump into that heatsino too hard.

I don't play football with my pc.

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.

 

[n-ster]

Just go back to u.2 and get rid of this insanity and dumb board covers

Probably EDSFF drives would be better ie E1.S, E3.S or E3.S 2T for the chongus fast and hungry bois, but yea not coming to consumers, motherboards wanna be cheap. Maybe CXL will save the day

 

[TheDeeGee]

I don't play football with my pc.

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.

Most Noctua fan are below 20dba.

 

[metalfiber]

I was looking for a all copper one but this was the close as i could get...

 

[ThrashZone]

oh my thats a big heatstink.

Hi,
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

 

[freeagent]

Hi,
Yeah reminds me of @freeagent thermalright I believe ? heatsinks he got and couldn't fit in at least one board ?

These ones here are tiny

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

 

[nexxusty]

Imagine buying Gigabyte hardware. Lol.

 

[Keeyp]

by the time it's mainstream they'll have figured heat (lower nm or whatever) meanwhile there is not much use for this, no game support it, 10 gbit network is confidential, in techpowerup test you can already see for most application there is no difference unless you unrar compressed documents all day

 

[R-T-B]

10 gbit network is confidential

What? There are 10gb consumer products you know.

I agree with the general point of your post though.

 

[Drash]

Or just buy an Optane SSD and enjoy real performance, oh wait....

Damn you Intel.