MSI PCIe 5.0 SSD Debuts with 12 GBps Reads, 10 GBps Writes

This week, we received our first alternative to benchmark a PCIe 5.0 SSD, however that was an engineering pattern based mostly on Phison’s E26 controller, not a transport product that customers will have the ability to purchase. In the present day, MSI has introduced two new, PCIe 5.0 SSDs — the Spatium M570 Professional and Spatium M570 — that are the primary PCIe 5.0 drives we have seen that you’ll truly have the ability to purchase as transport merchandise.

At MSI’s CES demo suite, we received to see each drives, however extra importantly, we received to see early benchmark outcomes from the Spatium M570 Professional, which boasts sequential learn and write speeds of 12,000 and 10,000 MBps respectively. MSI is launching each drives in Q2 of this 12 months for undisclosed costs and the M570 Professional can be going to be obtainable as an choice in its Raider GE78 HX and Titan GT77 HX laptops.

Each MSI Spatium drives use Phison’s E26 controller, however the M570 Professional makes use of Micron’s new 232-layer NAND flash, which permits it to have sooner speeds whereas the M570 non-pro is utilizing slower TLC reminiscence that solely permits it to stand up to 10,000 MBps reads.