GIGABYTE Formally Launches AORUS Gen5 10000 Series NVMe SSDs

[btarunr]

GIGABYTE formally launched its flagship AORUS Gen5 10000 series M.2 NVMe SSDs that take advantage of a PCI-Express 5.0 x4 interface. Currently, all AMD B650 series and X670 series motherboards offer a PCIe Gen 5 M.2 slot wired to the processor without eating into PEG bandwidth, while some Intel 700-series chipset motherboards offer Gen 5 M.2 slots by subtracting lanes from the PEG slot. AORUS Gen5 10000 for now comes in 1 TB and 2 TB capacities. The drives combine a Phison E26 series controller with 3D TLC NAND flash memory and LPDDR4 DRAM cache.

The 1 TB model offers sequential transfer speeds of up to 9.5 GB/s reads, with up to 8.5 GB/s writes, and 700 TBW endurance; whereas the 2 TB model is faster, with up to 10 GB/s sequential reads, up to 9.5 GB/s writes, and 1,400 TBW endurance. The drive's power consumption is under 10 W, and GIGABYTE has deployed a thoughtful fanless cooling solution for the drive that spares you from the annoying high-pitched noise of other upcoming Gen 5 M.2 SSDs that use fan-heatsinks. The company didn't reveal pricing, but mentioned that the drives are backed by 5-year warranties.



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[Chaitanya]

Atleast Gigabyte has relearned making proper heatsinks.

 

[claes]

Wish their motherboards had heatsinks like this

edit: jinx @Chaitanya

 

[TristanX]

"all AMD B650 series and X670 series motherboards offer a PCIe Gen 5 M.2 slot" - definitely not all MB offer PCIE5 M.2 slots

 

[tabascosauz]

Atleast Gigabyte has relearned making proper heatsinks.

They've been making "proper" heatsinks since 2019. Guess you just didn't care enough to look around first.

Wish their motherboards had heatsinks like this

edit: jinx @Chaitanya

Their Pro/Ultra/Master boards have have finned heatsinks for a while though, like 3 years on both AMD and Intel platforms.

The problem with that design is that it can only realize its advantages over chunkier heatsinks if there's active airflow. So as Gigabyte doesn't usually rely on fans as a crutch (thank god) like ASRock does, the fins usually don't help rhe boards come out on top in VRM testing.

 

[Chaitanya]

Wish their motherboards had heatsinks like this

edit: jinx @Chaitanya

Their recent boards(mid to high end) have very good heatsinks(they were the only ones with completely passive X570 board at launch) even primary M.2 slots(on latest AM5 and Z790) have oversized heatsinks with fins.

They've been making "proper" heatsinks since 2019. Guess you just didn't care enough to look around first.

I did and its good thing they didnt go the lazy route with their SSDs which also have started to carry forward heatsinks that actually are designed to cool rather than just look good.

 

[claes]

I meant the heatpipes but yes

 

[Bwaze]

Meh, I have PCIe Gen 3, Gen 4 SSDs, I'd rather buy a SATA 8 TB drive for reasonable price. But it's not gonna happen any time soon, apparently.

 

[KrazyT]

Big cooler on MB, on processor, on SSD, on GC, even on memory ...
Cooler on case in the future ?
Will the ATX Standard can support all these big cooler in the future ?

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

"all AMD B650 series and X670 series motherboards offer a PCIe Gen 5 M.2 slot" - definitely not all MB offer PCIE5 M.2 slots

All B650E and X670E boards have a PCIe 5.0 m.2 slot, I think all X670 boards have a 5.0 m.2 slot, but I'm not 100%. I believe that only the B650 chipset boards can choose to skip the PCIe 5.0 m.2 slot

 

[HairyLobsters]

Big cooler on MB, on processor, on SSD, on GC, even on memory ...
Cooler on case in the future ?
Will the ATX Standard can support all these big cooler in the future ?

Memory doesn't really need to be cooled.

 

[Assimilator]

I bet those aren't even real heatpipes.

 

[Darksword]

I bet those aren't even real heatpipes.

They aren't. They're just mini candy canes painted black.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Some performance numbers from the press release.