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Perhaps the Achilles Heal of the SSD industry has always been heat. We can get you that 14GB/s performance…but at a price. Only recently have we seen Gen5 SSDs doing what it takes to bring down the heat. Things such as smaller footprint controllers, newer memory which can establish higher capacities in a single-sided format, a DRAMless form factor…and now graphene branding which helps as well. I want a 14GB/s SSD in a laptop that won’t burn a hole in my leg and I am not alone. There are a ton of media professionals looking for exactly the same. In fact, right now I am surrounded by countless press and media professionals here at Computex Taipei in the press room… with massive laptops. Chris Ramsayer and Phison believe they can change all of that.
I almost believe that someone heard my ‘in-voice’ with respect to this topic because the Phison display was chock-full of Gen5 laptops…. with Gen5 speeds. Check this out:
This would be the MSI Raider GE78 HX with the Intel i9-14900HX, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and it definitely has a PCIe 5.0 interface. I might be impressed but this laptop is a monster to lug around at tech events… Look closer though:
That Phison E28 Gen5 SSD is as cool as it gets. Out of respect, competitor names aren’t mentioned but anyone knows that low power Gen5 SSDs are far and few between. If you look close, you will see active power for sequential reads and writes is low 6 watts whereas the competitor is 7 watts. Random writes show just the same with the Phison E28 needing less power than the competitor. Four different scenarios…for different success stories. Just itching to try this in my new LG Gram Pro 16. But wait… want to see a smaller SSD with Gen5 performance?
This is one of the lightest laptops on the market. It is a Dell XPS and it just happens to have the same CPU and memory as I have in my LG Gram Pro; an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V (Series 2) and 32GB of RAM. Again… this laptop has a PCIe 5.0 interface. The SSD within is a Phison engineering sample of the PS5031-E31T low power DRAMless 4-channel SSD controller and we reviewed the Crucial 510 recently which contains this controller. It no doubt gets you where you are going. High power lightweight laptops not enough??? Check this out…
This would be 32 x Phison E28 engineering sample SSDs installed within 3 x Apex Storage X16 Gen5 AICs. The base system is an AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7985WX CPU in an ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard.
These speeds of 113GB/s read and 110GB/s write are absolutely unheard of….
