Mushkin Vortex Redline and Votex LX NVMe SSDs Detailed, Epsilon Gen 5 SSD Teased

[btarunr]

Mushkin at the 2023 International CES showed off its Vortex Redline and Vortex LX M.2 NVMe SSDs. The Vortex Redline is the company's top PCIe Gen 4 drive, combining an Innogrit IG5236 NVMe 1.4 controller with 3D TLC NAND flash, to offer transfer speeds of up to 7415 MB/s. The Vortex Redline comes in capacities of 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. The Vortex LX is a more value-oriented product, based on an unnamed Innogrit-sourced DRAMless controller. This drive features a PCIe Gen 4 interface, but offers slightly lower performance that the company didn't disclose.

The star attraction at the Mushkin booth was its Epsilon SSD that features a PCI-Express 5.0 x4 + NVMe 2.0 interface, a Phison E26-series controller, and next generation 3D NAND flash memory (possibly 232-layer). The drive features active cooling from a fan-heatsink, and while the company didn't talk about performance, drives based on this controller are known to offer up to 12 GB/s of sequential transfers. Lastly, the company showed off its lineup of 2.5-inch SATA 6 Gbps SSDs in capacities ranging all the way up to 16 TB, which are meant to be HDD replacements, and "warm" storage devices.



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[Chaitanya]

Not a fan of those tiny whiny fans on most of these SSDs. Also interested to know if those 16TB drives are TLC or QLC.

 

[Wirko]

Not a fan of those tiny whiny fans on most of these SSDs. Also interested to know if those 16TB drives are TLC or QLC.

Hopefully they're off most of the time, and only start when transfer rate exceeds half of that 12 GB/s. That is, in benchmarking.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I'll be in impressed with these PCIe 5.0 SSD's when the average user can sit down at a computer and actually notice they're general windows experience being faster.....which I don't think will happen. Heck, it's nearly impossible for someone to notice a difference between a SATAIII SSD and a PCIe 3.0 SSD as their OS drive, so I feel like the "need" for these 5.0 drives, outside of content creators and professional usage, will be purely driven by FOMO.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Not a fan of those tiny whiny fans on most of these SSDs. Also interested to know if those 16TB drives are TLC or QLC.

Yeah, they're totally unnecessary. The controllers get hot, yeah, but the power load is only MAYBE 10w. That can easily be handled by passive cooling (see also, sabarent's heatsink which is total overkill).

 

[Chaitanya]

Yeah, they're totally unnecessary. The controllers get hot, yeah, but the power load is only MAYBE 10w. That can easily be handled by passive cooling (see also, sabarent's heatsink which is total overkill).

Even Gigabyte and MSI showed off passive and overkill cooling solutions in terms of durability they are definitely better. Given where I live during summers ambient temps cross 35C(during daytime) I would much rather have insurance in form of large heatsinks(also since its stupidly dusty most times of year passive solutions are something that last long) than have throttling drives.

Hopefully they're off most of the time, and only start when transfer rate exceeds half of that 12 GB/s. That is, in benchmarking.

Even during normal use(running lightroom and helicon) these drives do need some decent cooling.

 

[bonehead123]

tiny whiny

Are these perhaps related to tighty whities, hehehe

But yea, I would not be in favor of having one of them on my drives either....guess I'll be stickin with my gen 3 & 4 drives for the near future

 

[ir_cow]

If you don't have active cooing or a big heatsink of Gen5 NVMe, it will severely throttle.