Specifications & Features

Specifications & Features

This PCIe 4.0 SSD boasts a fast controller and top-of-the-line flash, making it an excellent all-around performer. Plus, it's specifically designed to take advantage of Microsoft's upcoming DirectStorage API, which should bring significant performance improvements to gaming and production workloads. This firmware is based on Phison's I/O+ firmware and is designed to deliver superior performance during DirectStorage gaming. The SSD is available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB versions, but unfortunately, there's no 8TB SKU. 

Phison PS5018-E18 controller

The controller is a rehashed Phison E18, and that company is known for its flash NAND controllers and became very influential the past few years. The PS5018-E18 controller is based on a Cortex-R5 ×3, processor design and is manufactured at TSMC 12nm. By bringing this controller towards NVMe revision 1.4 the transfer rate per channel has increased from 800MT/s towards 1200 Increased to MT/s. And when you math that, that means a maximum transfer speed of roughly 7GB/s for both sequential reads and writes. Here's a nice value as well, random read/write performance would be listed at 1 million IOPS, and all that with an expected peak energy consumption of 3W for the controller alone