One of the biggest features of AMD’s expensive X570 motherboards is PCI-Express 4.0, especially when it comes to storage. Typically the fastest PCI-Express 3.0 NVMe drives averaged around 3500 MB/s, but with PCI-Express 4.0 you are going to get around 5000 MB/s or 5GB/s! Is Gigabyte AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 faster than SSD?
That is a massive increase in speed and in a world where time is money and no one wants to wait for that transfer or game to load the extra cost for that speed is worth it. Today we are going to be taking a look at one of the first PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe drives and it comes from AORUS. The drive makes use of the Phison PS5016-E16 PCI-Express 4.0 x4 controller, Toshiba BiCS4 96-layer 3D TLC NAND, and a DDR4 cache chip from SK Hynix.
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Gigabyte AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 specs
Model
- Brand : GIGABYTE
- Series : AORUS
- Model : GP-ASM2NE6500GTTD
- Device Type : Internal
- Solid State Drive (SSD) : Used ForConsumer
Details
- Form Factor : M.2 2280
- Capacity : 500GB/ 1TB/ 2TB
- Memory Components 3D TLC Toshiba BiCS4
- Interface : PCI-Express 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
- Controller : Phison PS5016-E16
- Cache : 512MB DDR4
Performance
- Max Sequential Read : Up to 5000 MBps
- Max Sequential Write : Up to 2500 MBps
- 4KB Random Read : Up to 400,000 IOPS
- 4KB Random Write : Up to 550,000 IOPS
- MTTF : 1.77 million hours
- HeatSink : Yes
Features
- Features : Wear Leveling, Over-Provision technologies
- TRIM & S.M.A.R.T supported
- Fully Body Copper Heat Spreader
Environmental
- Power Consumption (Idle) : 13.21 mW
- Power Consumption (Active) R: 5.9W, W: 4.5W
- Operating Temperature : 0°C ~ +70°C
- Storage Temperature-40°C ~ +85°C
Dimensions & Weight
- Height : 11.40mm
- Width : 23.50mm
- Depth ” 80.50mm
Gigabyte AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 comparison
| Gigabyte AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 500GB PCI-Express 4.0 | Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 | Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 500GB – M.2 NVMe Interface | Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 M.2 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 Interface | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Storage Capacity | 500.0 GB | 1 TB | 500 GB | 1.0 TB |
| Hardware Connectivity | PCI | PCI Express x4 | PCI Express x4 | PCI |
| Item Dimensions | 5.12 x 3.15 x 1.18 inches | 3.15 x 0.86 x 0.11 inches | 0.87 x 0.90 x 3.15 inches | 5.12 x 3.15 x 1.18 inches |
Gigabyte AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 review
Design
Taking a first look at the AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD, it is your typical M.2 solid state drive. It is the standard 80 mm long. This is a dual-sided drive, so you have chips on both side of the drive.
Controller
Powering this drive is the Phison PS5016-E16 controller, which is actually the world’s first PCIe 4.0×4 controller. This controller has enough compute power for ECC processing when adopting the latest 3D TLC NAND flash. It also features eight NAND channels with 32 CE targets, DDR4 DRAM caching, and a PCIe 4.0×4 interface. It also brings support for the NVMe 1.3 protocol, LDPC error correction, and wear leveling.
TOSHIBA BiCS4 96 Layers 3D TLC (800MT/s)
Toshiba BiCS4 NAND Flash optimizes circuitry and architecture by increasing to 96 layers for higher storage space per unit area. 800MT/s throughput on the AORUS NVMe Gen 4 SSD far exceeds that of PCIe 3.0×4 devices for superior storage performance.
Cache
Finally you have the DDR4 cache, which you have two 1GB SK Hynix chips, giving you a total of 2GB of cache.
Heatsink
Taking a look at the heatsink, it has a two-piece design. This allows you to set the drive in the bottom piece and then place the larger piece of top. There is thermal tape of both sides to ensure you won’t damage your drive during installation. This is definitely the beefiest M.2 heatsink that we’ve seen! AORUS tells us that there is 70 gram of copper there total!
Price and availability
Priced at a whopping £290 / $260 for the 1TB version, and an eye-watering £480 / $460 for the top 2TB model, the Aorus NVMe Gen 4 SSD is really only for serious power users / over-eager early adopters at the moment, because let’s face it, no one needs to spend that much on an SSD right now, and prices will almost certainly come down once more of them start arriving on shop shelves. Best SSD for gaming material, this is not, then – or at least not when it comes to overall value for money.
1. Gigabyte AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 500GB PCI-Express 4.0 review
- Form Factor: M.2 2280
- Interface: PCI-Express 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
- Total capacity: 500GB
- Sequential read speed: up to 5000 MB/s
- Sequential write speed: up to 2500 MB/s
2. Gigabyte AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 review
- Form Factor: M. 2 2280
- Interface: PCI-Express 4. 0 x4, NVMe 1. 3
- Total Capacity: 1000GB
- Sequential Read Speed : up to 5000 MB/s
- Sequential Write speed : up to 4400 MB/s