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LITEON (the company behind Plextor, is offering their new EPX M.2 SSD NVMe series storage units, these puppies can hold up to a whopping 1.92TB of storage volume.
While intended for the enterprise/server market, I wouldn't mind using these in desktops hanks ts to additional power loss protection. The EPX will become available in two models, a 960 GB and 1.92TB. Be aware though, that the M.2. units are following the 10cm M.2 22110 form factor, mostly motherboards support up-to 8cm. Then again, a lot of recent motherboards easily support the length.
| Technical Specifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model Name | EPX-KB 960 | EPX-KB 1920 | |||
| Capacity | 960 GB | 1920 GB | |||
| Performance | |||||
| Sequential Read/Write1 | 1700/670 MB/s | 1800/800 MB/s | |||
| 4K Random Read/ Write1 | 300K/30K IOPS | 33K/30K IOPS | |||
| Latency Read/Write1 | 180/40 µs | 180/40 µs | |||
| Compatibility | |||||
| Host Interface | NVMe PCIe Gen 3x4 3D NAND | ||||
Form Factor |
M.2 22110: 110.0mm x 22.0mm x 5.3mm @ 16g Max | ||||
| Reliability | |||||
| UBER2 | 1 error in 1017bits transferred | ||||
| End-to-End Protection | Supported | ||||
| Power Loss Protection | Supported | ||||
| MTBF3 | 2 million hours | ||||
| Endurance | |||||
| DWPD | Up to 1 Drive Write per Day for 3 years | ||||
| Data Retention | 1 Year Power-off Retention | ||||
| Power Consumption | |||||
| Idle | < 2.4 Watts | ||||
| Activ | < 8.25 Watts | ||||
| Environment | |||||
| Operating Temperature | 0 to 70°C | ||||
| Non-operating Temperature | -40 to 85°C | ||||
It is protected with some power loss protection as well, including, "end-to-end data path protection" and proprietary error correction as well as "RAIFE" data protection thanks to extra capacitors. without compromising the server's reliability, it becomes possible to high-speed data access.
It's not the fastest series when talking NVMe storage, but they offer transfer rates of the 960GB model are sequential reads at 1,700MB / sec, writes 670 MB / sec, a random read is 30,000 IOPS, write 30,000 IOPS, 1,920GB model respectively 1,800MB / sec, 800MB / sec, 33,000 IOPS, 30,000 IOPS. Latency reads are 180μs, and write 40μs.
Product warranty is three years.
LITEON Offers EPX M2 SSD series up-to 1.92TB