Gigabyte’s 15,000MB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD is the “world’s fastest and largest”
Gigabyte has announced the world’s fastest and largest PCIe 4.0 SSD, the Aorus AIC, during its Aorus Xtreme Power event at Computex 2019. With 8TB of space on a single add-in card, you’ll never have to worry about your Steam library crippling your PC ever again. Oh and did I mention it runs up to 15,000MB/s read and 15,200MB/s write? Damn.
The drive is technically four PCIe 4.0 2TB SSDs weaved together into one GPU-style add-in card that operates across an entire 16x slot. All that flash memory is sure to run hot, so the engineers over at Gigabyte have strapped a blower-style fan shroud onto the drive to keep it running smoothly.
This exuberant drive is made possible by AMD's just announced X570 platform - the first client desktop motherboard platform to deliver PCIe 4.0 bandwidth. This new standard doubles the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 traces today allowing for unparalleled storage and I/O capability on AMD compatible boards with the latest chips. Whereas a single x4 PCIe 3.0 connection maxes out at around 4GB/s, a PCIe 4.0 x4 connection manages double that at 8GB/s.
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