Wednesday, May 31st 2023

ADATA XPG Storage and Memory Products at Computex: Project Neonstorm, Legend 970, Caster RGB DDR5-9000

ADATA and XPG, its gamer focused sub-brand, unveiled a plethora of memory and storage products at the 2023 Computex. We begin with PC memory, and we see the company showing off its upcoming models of the XPG DDR5 memory targeting enthusiasts. These include the XPG Caster RGB DDR5, which is capable of DDR5-9000, the XPG Lancer RGB ROG edition, capable of DDR5-7200, and the company's overclocking-capable DDR5-6400 R-DIMM targeting Xeon W workstations. The company also showed us "Project NeonStorm." This is an innovative new SSD cooling system that uses a self-contained liquid cooler.

The way this liquid cooler works is that a high conductivity heat spreader transfers heat to a chamber containing a coolant fluid. This coolant heats up an aluminium alloy tube via convection. The inner wall of this tube serves as an airflow channel for a 20 mm fan. ADATA claims that this solution offers "over 20% better heat dissipation compared to SSDs without water cooling." This is also one of the very first SSDs we've seen that utilize Silicon Motion SM2508 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe controller. ADATA claims sequential reads of up to 14 GB/s, with up to 12 GB/s sequential writes. The drive comes in capacity-based models of up to 8 TB (could include 2 TB, 4 TB, and 8 TB). ADATA also showed off the Legend 970 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD that uses a Phison E26-series controller, and comes in capacities of 1 TB and 2 TB. This drive belts out up to 10 GB/s reads, with up to 10 GB/s writes.
The ADATA UC310 ECO is a USB flash drive with its body made of 35% post-consumer recycled plastic. The drive features a 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface, and comes in capacities ranging between 32 GB and 256 GB. The HC300 ECO is built on the same conscious philosophy, and is a portable hard drive that comes in 1 TB and 2 TB capacities.
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7 Comments on ADATA XPG Storage and Memory Products at Computex: Project Neonstorm, Legend 970, Caster RGB DDR5-9000

#1
Eskimonster
9000, omg they are increasing fast. Did they not start with like 5000 ?
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Minus Infinity
Eskimonster9000, omg they are increasing fast. Did they not start with like 5000 ?
4800 was base spec IIRC.

Still 9000 will need 1.5V and be CL40+. Much rather 6400 CL26
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#3
kondamin
9000, they should stop that and start doing GT over MT
ddr5 9000 pc5 72000 is just a waste of text.
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#4
Prima.Vera
Why are we stuck on 2TB maximum for SSDs???
Does anyone have a logical explanation of this??
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#5
kondamin
Prima.VeraWhy are we stuck on 2TB maximum for SSDs???
Does anyone have a logical explanation of this??
8 is available 4 is even affordable.

enterprise has up to 30
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#6
Prima.Vera
kondamin8 is available 4 is even affordable.

enterprise has up to 30
Affordable? ;)
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#7
kondamin
Prima.VeraAffordable? ;)
~200 for 4TB TLC isn't cheap but it was ~600 3 years ago.
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