Computex 2017: ADATA Going for M2 NVMe

Adata the company know for their storage technologies best had a pretty big booth at Computex this year. On demo where a lot off products, the hot stuff among them are new M2 flash based storage units in varying models (TLC/MLC) from top to bottom.

ADATA historically does anything with that is related to memory. So at the booth lots of NAND based flash storage solutions including SSDs, Memory cards, USB Flash Drives but of course also your regular DDR4 types memory with the XPG series targeted at you guys, the gamers. They have been showing a 4500 MHZ DDR4 kir called XPG Z1. It actually is offered in speeds starting at 2400 MHz in 4 / 8 / 16 GB DIMM modules. On display also was an external SSD called SPECTRIX S10 (512GB) which looked like something that came out of Batman's tool-belt. 

Most interesting for us Guru3D I found to be the new M2 line that is coming. Among them a 2D Toggle MLC NAND kit that will perform close to the 3 GB/sec ranges with up-to 1.5 GB/sec writes. The unit is the SX9000NP and will be available in 256 / 512 and 1TB volume sizes. A cheaper SX8000NP model will be released as well, this one holds 3D MLC NAND. 

For the entry level segment ADATA will release the SX6000NP and SX7000NP series, these obviously will be based on TLC NAND with lower perf numbers, but at more wicked prices. Have a peek at the photos for ther precise details, if interested. On the enterprise market they will release an M2 NVMe unit that is even more impressive. Check the IM2P33E8 for example.

The SMI based unit uses Vertically stacked NAND (weirdly enough for Enterprise they use TLC but it might be a typo and be MLC) but check that score on the top right side, as they are passing 3200 MB/sec reads with this unit. That's massive. For the less IO intensive servers or workstations the IM2S33D8 will be offered.

Intersting, I hardly have seen anything optane at any of the booths now that I think about it.