Crucial T700 Pro 4 TB

[Assimilator]

Good to see that E26 continues to be a literal dumpster fire in terms of power consumption and temperature, and that Phison has done literally nothing to fix this.

 

[Onasi]

Good to see that E26 continues to be a literal dumpster fire in terms of power consumption and temperature, and that Phison has done literally nothing to fix this.

I am honestly curious at this point what the problem even IS for Phison. It’s been more than a year. Is it that the controller just has inherent design issues and needs to be reworked from ground up? Is it the node and they are unable/unwilling to get an allocation for a shrink to a more efficient one?
I know one thing - I would be mildly annoyed if I bought a drive with one and it turns out they had a redesigned controller for a while now and just held off on announcing it for CES or some nonsense.

 

[bug]

I am honestly curious at this point what the problem even IS for Phison. It’s been more than a year. Is it that the controller just has inherent design issues and needs to be reworked from ground up? Is it the node and they are unable/unwilling to get an allocation for a shrink to a more efficient one?
I know one thing - I would be mildly annoyed if I bought a drive with one and it turns out they had a redesigned controller for a while now and just held off on announcing it for CES or some nonsense.

There is nothing particular to E26. As we ramped up transfer speeds, controller got increasingly hotter. PCIe 4 controllers already couldn't sustain sequential writes, what would one expect from PCIe 5 controllers?
Moving to a smaller node might alleviate the problem, but since fabs are already running full speed, it may be hard to secure capacity.

 

[Assimilator]

I am honestly curious at this point what the problem even IS for Phison. It’s been more than a year. Is it that the controller just has inherent design issues and needs to be reworked from ground up? Is it the node and they are unable/unwilling to get an allocation for a shrink to a more efficient one?
I know one thing - I would be mildly annoyed if I bought a drive with one and it turns out they had a redesigned controller for a while now and just held off on announcing it for CES or some nonsense.

It's primarily economics; consumers don't want PCIe 5.0 SSDs because they're no faster than their 4.0 brethren, except in sequential performance which is the least important metric, and they also cost stupid amounts of money. Therefore manufacturers have no reason to produce or refine 5.0 SSDs since they can make more money with 4.0 ones. Which of course, is a self-perpetuating loop of failure because until PCIe 5.0 SSDs are able to justify themselves, they won't be purchased, which will disincentivise their manufacture, et cetera.

None of which, of course, excuses Phison for not fixing what is essentially a beta product. Laziness and greed are wonderful bedfellows.

 

[Braegnok]

Thanks for the review,..

I have the 2TB variant running in Asus PCIe 5.0 M.2 card, the performance & temps are great.

 

[Deleted member 237269]

Thanks for the review,..

I have the 2TB variant running in Asus PCIe 5.0 M.2 card, the performance & temps are great.

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