Nextorage, a memory manufacturer, just showed off some of the company’s upcoming products at the Tokyo Game Show 2022. In addition to the usual PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs, we also saw a new generation of PCIe 5.0 SKUs with transfer rates up to 10 GB/s. To ensure stable performance over time, manufacturers can equip high-performance SSDs with active or passive coolers, but here Nextorage only showed the latter.
One comes with a standard copper die and the other with a large heat sink. The height extending from the base plate allows for a larger portion of space inside the PC. Nextorage is still in the evaluation phase, however, so the images shown at TGS may not be the final shape.
In terms of specifications, the company’s next-generation PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs are capable of sequential reads and writes of 10,000 and 9,500 MB/s (2TB SKUs). The lower capacity 1TB SKU has sequential reads and writes of 9500 and 8500 MB/s.
In terms of flash memory, the PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD series uses 176 layers of NAND particles, which explains why its speed does not exceed 10 GB/s.
These products are not only for desktop PCs, but also compatible with Sony PlayStation 5 game consoles.
In addition, Nextorage offers PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs with capacities up to 4TB for existing platforms, with read/write rates of 7300 and 6900 MB/s and random performance of millions of IOPS.
