Specifications and features

Specifications and features

The sample of GOODRAM IRDM PRO M.2 SSD that has arrived for testing is the 2 TB version of the drive. It is an NVMe 1.4, PCIe 4x4 drive, so that you can expect outstanding performance. Unleashed by the PCIe 4.0 ready AMD B550/X570 chipset and Intel Rocket Lake-S / Z590, the SSD reaches up to an advertised 7000 MB/sec sequential read – fourteen times the performance of many SATA SSDs and seventy times faster than some hard disk drives. The performance stems from the hugely increased bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 (PCI-Express Generation 4), a feature that will be made available to customers for the first time as part of the AMD X570 chipset and 3rd Generation AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors. Easily fitting into a PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slot, the NVMe interface has been bumped upwards to the new 1.4 protocol, and high-density TLC NAND combined with a fast controller to enable a new level of single-drive SSD performance. It boasts staggering numbers. The controller is an 8-channel Phison E18 controller with a DRAM buffer. The series is fitted with 3D TLC (Triple-level cell) NAND flash memory. It allows IRDM to offer a bigger storage capacity at a lower price. But you'll see how it will be in reality later in the review.

Phison PS5018-E18 controller

GOODRAM IRDM PRO M.2 SSD has used the Phison (PS5018-E18) controller, based on a Cortex-R5 ×3 processor design and manufactured at TSMC 12nm. By bringing this controller towards NVMe revision 1.4, the transfer rate per channel has increased from 800MT/s to 1200 Increased to MT/s. And when you math that, that means a maximum transfer speed of roughly 7GB/s for sequential reads and writes. Here's an excellent value as well, random read/write performance would be listed at 0.7 million IOPS.

Product Features (2 TB version):

• Appearance size:  M.2
• Color: black
• Interface: PCIe Gen 4*4, NVMe
• Storage capacity: 1TB / 2TB / 4TB
• NAND flash memory: 3D TLC (Tri-Level Cell)
• Main controller: PS5018-E18
• Maximum continuous read and write speed: 
                                  1 TB / 7000, 5500 MB/s
                                  2 TB / 7000, 6850 MB/s
                                  4 TB / 7000, 6850 MB/s
• Maximum read/write operations per second (4K files):
                                  1 TB / 350 000, 700 000 IOPS
                                  2 TB / 650 000, 700 000 IOPS
                                  4 TB / 650 000, 700 000 IOPS
• TBW:
                                          1 TB / 700 TB
                                          2 TB / 1400 TB
                                          4 TB / 3000 TB
• Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF): 2,000,000 hours
• Operating temperature: 0 ℃ to 70 ℃ (32 ℉ to 158 ℉)
• Warranty: 5 years of warranty limited by TBW* + technical support

With each version, you'll get a:

 
• SSD
• Heatsink
• Mounting kit
• A set of stickers