The GIGABYTE AORUS Gen5 SSD is now available in the US retail channel, confirming that the new generation of solid state drives should finally arrive on the market very soon, in another leap in performance in client storage by taking advantage of the interface features PC industry’s most advanced internal PCIe 5.0.
We already knew about the GIGABYTE AORUS Gen5 SSD from its presentation at CES. use the format M.2-2280 which is becoming the main and almost unique SSD due to its great advantages due to its compact size that allows it to be installed on both desktops and laptops.
GIGABYTE’s drive combines a specially designed Phison E26 controller for these Gen5s with triple-layer 3D NAND flash memory and additional DDR4 cache memory to increase performance when accessing the most frequently used data. It has support for the latest version of the NVMe protocol that makes them self-booting and achieves data transfer of 10 GB/sec on sequential reads and 9.5 GB/s on writes.
Another outstanding aspect of this AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD is its cooling. It’s about a heat sink AORUS Xtreme Thermal Guard which has already been used by the company to cool the chipsets of its most advanced motherboards. It’s a massive size for an SSD, with dual aluminum fins held together by a pair of heat pipes. And it looks like it will come in handy for peak performance as these drives get quite hot.
GIGABYTE AORUS Gen5 SSDs, prices
The manufacturer announced two versions for the launch of this series, according to storage capacity: 1 and 2 Tbytes. The one with the largest capacity has already appeared in retailers such as Amazon and Newegg, with a starting price of €339.99. , five-year warranty and resistance of -at least- 1,400 Tbytes written.
That $0.17 per GB is quite a bit higher than current Gen4 SSDs. It is usually common in the launch of new generations and in the first phases of distribution of a new product. GIGABYTE has not yet announced an official price and it is to be expected that prices will drop as other manufacturers (WD, Samsung, Kingston, Kioxia…) launch their versions. The new Gen5s shouldn’t take too long to hit the retail channel.
