Team Group said that the brand-new T-FORCE DARK AirFlow Cooler is equipped with an exclusive design heat pipe running through the multi-layer aluminum fin heat sink structure, which greatly increases the heat conduction area, and has an active fan conduction heat dissipation structure. The multiple heat dissipation design is specially designed for Gen5 SSD. The high-speed operation eliminates heat sources and effectively maintains a good working temperature so that the Gen5 M.2 PCIe SSD can continue to maintain excellent performance in a high-intensity working environment and prolong the service life of the SSD.

According to the foreign media TechPowerUp’s live report, Team Group exhibited the latest CARDEA Z5 series PCIe 5.0 SSD, with a sequential read speed of up to 14000MB/s and an optional capacity of 4TB.

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According to the introduction, the maximum read and write performance of the SSD with an E31T host will reach 10.5GB/s, which is a PCIe 5.0 SSD storage solution with both performance and power consumption.

Noted that Phison also announced its 12nm-based PCIe 4.0 DRAM-free SSD host PS5027-E27T, which has a maximum read speed of 7400 MB/s and a maximum write speed of 6400 MB/s. Quinlan believes that these two hosts will meet the needs of different PC OEM partner customers.

Phison CEO Pan Jiancheng pointed out that Phison’s new main control chip has already sent samples to customers and is ready for mass production. It is expected that SSD products equipped with Phison’s new main control will be launched in the second half of this year at the earliest.

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According to a picture posted by Twitter blogger @momomo_us, he has gotten his hands on the SSD and a benchmark test using CrystalDiskMark confirmed that the SSD can easily exceed 10 GB/s sequential read and write speeds. However, write speeds are slightly lower for smaller capacities (~9.5 GB/s).

In addition, the SSD’s fan runs at a very high RPM during testing, much louder than the standard cooler on the paired Core i7-13700K processor. This may be due to the high usage during the storage test, which is not expected to be as loud during normal use.

The series SSDs feature an M.2 Type 2280 D2 (double-sided) design with a small built-in 20mm fan to aid in heat dissipation, a Qunar PS5026-E26 main controller, Micron 3D TLC B58R flash memory, and a 2TB model with 4GB DRAM cache.

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According to reports, MSI’s M570 Pro uses the latest Micron 232-layer NAND chip and is equipped with Phison’s latest E26 master control, which can achieve 12GB/s write sequential read speed and 10GB/s sequential write speed. Additionally, MSI showed off a non-Pro model of the M570 with speeds of up to 10 GB/s.

MSI provided the Crystal Disk Mark running score of the M570 Pro 2TB model, achieving a sequential read speed of 12324 MB/s and a sequential write speed of 11814 MB/s.

The MSI M570 series PCIe 5.0 SSD is available in 1-4TB and is expected to be launched in the second quarter.

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According to Qunar, the new Qunar E26 SSD is the first Gen5 gaming-optimized SSD, built on the 12nm TSMC process, with read speeds close to 14 GB/s and write speeds close to 12 GB/s, almost twice the data movement speed of its predecessor, and supporting 3D QLC and TLC NAND to provide up to 8 TB of storage capacity.

The CES 2023 will kick off at 0:00 on January 4, when Intel, Nvidia, and AMD will release their latest chip products, after which each manufacturer will release a new generation of notebook and desktop products.

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The company’s new PCIe 5.0 SSDs are expected to be available in large quantities early next year.

According to OC3D, Qunar shipped the E26 PCIe 5.0 host chip in October. The master was first unveiled at CES in January, when it was officially announced that the PS5026-E26 could achieve sequential read speeds of up to 12GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 11GB/s, as well as 4K random read speeds of 1500K IOPS and 4K random write speeds of 2000K IOPS.

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The Flash Memory Summit 2022, AMD and Clusterlink demonstrated an E26 host PCIe Gen5 SSD running on the Rex 7000 platform with a read speed of 10GB/s.

Sources say that the current E26 host chip with 2400MT/s bandwidth 3D-TLC flash can achieve super-fast read speeds of 10 GB/s. After that, the manufacturer will continue to verify the next generation of materials and NAND flash particles, so that the overall performance can be further enhanced to read speeds of up to 12 GB / s or more.

Both AMD and Intel’s latest motherboard platforms already support PCIe 5.0 SSDs, and cooler manufacturers have introduced a number of M.2 active coolers, but no manufacturer has announced an accurate time frame for PCIe 5.0 SSDs to hit the market.

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Intel’s 12th generation Core desktop processors released in 2021 debuted with support for PCIe 5.0 technology, although the processor’s PCIe 5.0 only supports graphics cards, not SSDs.

At the end of September this year, Intel will release the 13th generation Core, and the industry expects that the 13th generation Core will be able to support PCIe 5.0 SSDs, but recent media reports indicate that Intel’s 13th generation Core will probably be the same as the 12th generation, both of which do not support PCIe 5.0 SSDs.

Recent netizens have exposed the specifications of the 13th generation Core Raptor Lake and Z790 motherboard, which provides five M.2 slots, however, whether the CPU is directly connected or Z790 chipset does not support PCIe 5.0, M.2 hard drives support up to PCIe 4.0 x4.

The industry believes that the current market has fewer PCIe 5.0 SSD products, so Intel’s 13th generation Core is not keen to support PCIe 5.0 SSDs.

It is no coincidence that the recent Samsung flagship SSD product 990 Pro also does not support PCIe 5.0 technology, but continues to use PCIe 4.0 technology. Previously, the industry was rumored that Samsung’s new 990 PRO was a PCIe 5.0 product, however, Samsung officially released the 990 PRO, a PCIe 4.0 technology-based NVMe SSD product, on August 24.

Why give up PCIe 5.0 technology? In this regard, Samsung said that the adoption of PCIe 4.0 is not a product development or technical problem, but simply a judgment based on market demand.

AMD joined forces with 12 manufacturers to push PCIe 5.0 SSDs

Compared to Intel and Samsung, AMD’s attitude towards consumer PCIe 5.0 SSDs is relatively positive.

On August 30, AMD released the Zen4 architecture of the Dragon 7000 series desktop processors, built using TSMC’s 5nm process, the new architecture is 13% higher than the existing product IPC, and supports DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0.

In addition, AMD has also joined forces with 12 vendors to push the PCIe 5.0 ecosystem, including Qunar, ASUS, Micron, Corsair, Ingenuity, Shadowrun, Gigabyte, MSI, Seagate, PNY, etc. The related PCIe 5.0 SSDs are expected to be available starting this November.

PCIe 5.0 SSDs can provide faster speeds and higher performance than PCIe 4.0 SSDs. The new MP700 PCIe 5.0 SSD announced on Corsair’s website is also up to 10GB/s. Compared to this, the current PCIe 4.0 flagship SSDs can reach speeds of more than 7GB/s.

Conclusion

Despite the powerful performance of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, the current price of SSDs supporting PCIe 5.0 is still very expensive, which means that PCIe 5.0 SSDs can only be used in servers and data centers first, while the consumer market is price-oriented and it will take some time for consumer PCIe 5.0 SSDs to be recognized by the market. Until the cost issue is resolved, consumer PCIe 5.0 SSDs are expected to develop in a “slow” manner.

In the future, as AMD and other vendors continue to make efforts and more and more vendors promote the application of PCIe 5.0 in the consumer market, the consumer PCIe 5.0 SSD market will continue to expand.

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Although consumer-grade products can’t compete with enterprise-grade products, it is important to know that PCIe 5.0 x4 can provide 16GB/s theoretical bandwidth and 15.75GB/s actual effective bandwidth.

At the same time, Qunar PS5026-E26 main control supports eight channels of 2400MT/s NAND flash memory, and the nominal read/write speed can reach 13GB/s and 12GB/s.

When the first PCIe 4.0 SSDs came up, they were able to run at around 7GB/s, which is not far from the theoretical bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 x4 8GB/s.

It turns out that the problem lies in the NAND flash memory, the existing 176-layer stacked flash memory, the interface speed stays at 1600MT/s, completely unable to feed the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0 x4, 10GB/s is already their limit speed.

Of course, some manufacturers have previewed upgraded versions but still can only run up to 12GB / s.

The good news is that Micron has announced 232 layers of flash memory, SK Hynix has achieved 238 layers, and China’s Changjiang Storage is also expected to rush to 232 layers, plus 2400MT/s interface speed, they are all perfect partners for PCIe 5.0, but will not start mass production until the end of this year one after another.

Therefore, if you are a high-performance enthusiast and want to experience the extreme speed of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, it is better to wait for a while, and it is estimated that around the middle of next year is the time to get on board.

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Some users broke the 13 generation Core Raptor Lake and Z790 motherboard specifications, the motherboard provides five M.2 slots, however, whether the CPU directly connected or Z790 chipset does not support PCIe 5.0, M.2 hard drive up to support PCIe 4.0 x4, with the current 12 generation Core is the same, no PCIe 5.0.

Considering the situation of the 12th-generation Core, in fact, the 13th-generation Core said that it is not appropriate to cut off PCIe 5.0. It seems that Intel has followed the previous design and has no plans to support PCIe 5.0 SSD hard drives. The reason may be the same as PCIe 5.0 this year. A few products are related and have little practical significance.

The problem is that AMD’s Ryzen 7000 already fully supports PCIe 5.0. Whether it is the high-end X670E/X670 or the B650E/B650 chipset of mainstream platforms, it already supports PCIe 5.0 graphics cards and SSDs, but the B650 series cannot choose graphics cards and hard drives at the same time. Can only choose one.

In addition, AMD has joined forces with 12 manufacturers to promote the PCIe 5.0 ecosystem this time, including Phison, ASUS, Micron, Intellida, GALAXY, GIGABYTE, MSI, Seagate, PNY and other brands. Related products will be launched in November.

Since the 13th-generation Core does not have PCIe 5.0 hard drives, players in the high-end PCIe 5.0 market this year may only have the option of the Ryzen platform.

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