Thursday, June 1st 2023
Apacer Memory and Storage at Computex 2023: NOX, ZADAK, CoreSnapshot
Apacer brought a brisk lineup of consumer memory and storage products to Computex 2023, including products targeting gamers and enthusiasts, under its NOX and ZADAK brands. The star-attraction at Apacer's booth is CoreSnapshot, a device that images your computer (creates a snapshot), at the push of a button. The device can also handle incremental backups of your operating environment. Unlike a software, this is a hardware-based solution that uses its own native storage. The device is available in 2.5-inch SATA, and PCIe x2 NVMe. The company also showed us the AS723, a high-performance portable SSD that takes advantage of the USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 type-C interface to offer sequential transfer speeds of up to 20 GB/s. It comes in capacities of up to 4 TB. From the looks of it, the drive could be using an internal NVMe RAID setup.
The company also showed off its AS2280F4 Gen 5 NVMe SSD. The drive uses an active fan-heatsink, and offers capacities of up to 4 TB (1 TB and 2 TB being the others). The sequential performance numbers being put out are 12.4 GB/s reads, with 11.5 GB/s writes, as measured by CDM. The only SSDs shown under the enthusiast ZADAK brand was the TWSG4S, an M.2 Gen 4 NVMe drive that nearly maxes out the interface, with maximum speeds of up to 7.4 GB/s reads, with up to 7 GB/s writes. Its heatsink makes it compatible with the PlayStation 5, and Apacer has extensively tested compatibility.There were five distinct memory module kits shown in the Apacer booth, under its mainline NOX and Panther brands, and the ZADAK sub-brand. The NOX series covers the most popular memory speeds in the market, in the range of DDR5-5200 to DDR5-6400. The Panther series DDR5 modules are the company's performance-segment modules positioned above the DDR5-5600 mark. These modules include not just XMP 3.0, but also AMD EXPO SPD profiles, so applying the advertised speeds on Ryzen 7000-series platforms is just as easy as on the 12th or 13th Gen Core. There are variants of these with RGB LED lighting that are positioned a north higher than the non-illuminated ones. Lastly, there;'s the ZADAK Spark DDR5 series, the company's flagship memory, will will be available in several enthusiast speed-grades, and designed for overclocking benches. The ZADAK Twist is a compact, rather plain-looking memory, but one that packs a whallop, with speeds of up to DDR5-8200.On our way out, we spotted these high-endurance microSDXC cards designed for photography drones and surveillance cameras.
The company also showed off its AS2280F4 Gen 5 NVMe SSD. The drive uses an active fan-heatsink, and offers capacities of up to 4 TB (1 TB and 2 TB being the others). The sequential performance numbers being put out are 12.4 GB/s reads, with 11.5 GB/s writes, as measured by CDM. The only SSDs shown under the enthusiast ZADAK brand was the TWSG4S, an M.2 Gen 4 NVMe drive that nearly maxes out the interface, with maximum speeds of up to 7.4 GB/s reads, with up to 7 GB/s writes. Its heatsink makes it compatible with the PlayStation 5, and Apacer has extensively tested compatibility.There were five distinct memory module kits shown in the Apacer booth, under its mainline NOX and Panther brands, and the ZADAK sub-brand. The NOX series covers the most popular memory speeds in the market, in the range of DDR5-5200 to DDR5-6400. The Panther series DDR5 modules are the company's performance-segment modules positioned above the DDR5-5600 mark. These modules include not just XMP 3.0, but also AMD EXPO SPD profiles, so applying the advertised speeds on Ryzen 7000-series platforms is just as easy as on the 12th or 13th Gen Core. There are variants of these with RGB LED lighting that are positioned a north higher than the non-illuminated ones. Lastly, there;'s the ZADAK Spark DDR5 series, the company's flagship memory, will will be available in several enthusiast speed-grades, and designed for overclocking benches. The ZADAK Twist is a compact, rather plain-looking memory, but one that packs a whallop, with speeds of up to DDR5-8200.On our way out, we spotted these high-endurance microSDXC cards designed for photography drones and surveillance cameras.