Galax HOF Extreme 50S PCIe 5.0 SSD Revealed, Boasts 12.4 GB/s Transfers & 1500K IOPS

[T0@st]

Galax has today announced a new flagship SSD for the Chinese market—ITHome noticed the Hall of Fame (HOF) Extreme 50S PCIe 5.0 SSD's reveal on Weibo. A very similar looking and named model was released a few months ago, but the new contender has added an "S" to its designation, so we expect it to offer a performance upgrade over its non-S sibling (a top performer for its time). Galax's own lab tests propose that the successor is capable of delivering read and write speeds up to 12.4 GB/s and 11.8 GB/s (respectively), a nice bump up from the previous gen model's 10.0 & 9.5 GB/s. ITHome's report suggests that these new storage drives are capable of reaching 1500K IOPS.

The HOF Extreme 50S and HOF Extreme 50 (non-S) series share the same Phison controller - PS5026-E26 - according to news sources. There are no differences in terms of NAND and cache configurations, but the newer models are likely faster thanks to refined ECC algorithm technology and fifth-generation LDPC error correction capabilities. No pricing and launch date(s) were available at the time of writing—ITHome understands that Galax will release a 2 TB model first, and a 4 TB will follow it.



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[Nordic]

Isn't 1500k iops comparable to the high end 4.0 drives like the Samsung 990 pro, Soldigm p44, and WD 850X? A quick Google check shows that it is. Those drives don't need fans and seem like a much better package.

 

[bonehead123]

12.4 GB/s and 11.8 GB/s is sooooo Q4/22.......

Geez Galax, this is your second version of this drive, just get with the program & make these drives REALLY scream at over 14 & 12GB/s....other mfgr's have done it already, so why can't you ?

And also bring on an 8TB model too

 

[Tomorrow]

Isn't 1500k iops comparable to the high end 4.0 drives like the Samsung 990 pro, Soldigm p44, and WD 850X? A quick Google check shows that it is. Those drives don't need fans and seem like a much better package.

That's what i thought. My 990 Pro can do that at half the capacity and likely one third of the cost while being passively cooled.

 

[Chrispy_]

It's hard to overlook the need for a giant heatsink.
PCIe 5.0 controllers are still immature, power-hungry, and (for most people) pointless; Yes the synthetic numbers are bigger, and no - neither your OS nor your games will load faster.

Wake me up when Gen5 storage is cool enough to run naked and fit in a laptop.

 

[Minus Infinity]

These housings look they are for 3.5" hdd's, we have now hit peak stupidity on PCI-E 5 ssd's.

 

[dicobalt]

At first glance my reaction was "that's an odd looking GPU."

 

[n-ster]

2.5in 15mm, E1.S 9.5mm, E3.S 2T... So many good standards for desktop performance drives are available, yet m.2 with a massive heatsink and fan is what we choose? The same pci-e 5.0 m.2 slot that might conflict with the top pci-e 5.0 x16 slot? It feels like we should just have the GPU have a m.2 slot or storage connector of some sort and make the GPU the new motherboard lol

 

[ymdhis]

Does it require a 6-pin power connector?

 

[PLAfiller]

At first glance my reaction was "that's an odd looking GPU."

+1

It's a HOF man...that shiny bling bling chrome-plated shroud hiding that little screamer

 

[Scrizz]

Let's see those trash 4k rand read/write specs.