The Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 10000 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on August 19th, 2022. It is available in capacities ranging from 1 TB to 4 TB. This page reports specifications for the 2 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 10000 interfaces using a PCI-Express 5.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5026-E26 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Gigabyte has installed 232-layer TLC NAND flash on the Aorus Gen5 10000, the flash chips are made by Micron. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. The cache is sized at 220 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 3500 MB/s. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 1400 MB/s. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 5.0 interface, performance is excellent. The Aorus Gen5 10000 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 10,000 MB/s and 9,500 MB/s write.
The SSD's price at launch is unknown. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Gigabyte guarantees an endurance rating of 1400 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.