Gigabyte Reveals the AORUS Gen5 12000 SSD

[Eskimonster]

I wonder if Frore Systems could fix the problem with one of those nifty little things

 

[b1k3rdude]

Unless Im mistaken, the article dosent state what the test system was....

 

[Broken Processor]

Gen 5 still isn't there yet. Hopefully new controllers will be cooler if not the motherboard manufacturers may need to look at lowering pcie16 slot down to 2 or 3 to allow for better nvme positioning because nvme is now the default storage choice.

 

[wolf]

From a gaming perspective, I've yet to see anything leverage the difference in speed between a top level Gen 4 drive (SN850X) and my older gen 3 drive which is like half the speed, maybe less (970 Evo).

Hard pressed to upsell into a Gen 5 drive, plus the need for a new mobo etc. I'm sure there are use cases for this, but from where I'm sitting, gaming ain't it.

 

[Wirko]

Moving tons of corn between drives apparently

Can't be done, it says POP! and becomes popcorn. (Ohm's thermal unzipping)

 

[Vya Domus]

Crazy that we've gotten to the point where storage needs more cooling than actual system memory.

 

[SN2716057]

I have a Thermalright version that's roughly the same size and it didn't fit under my Dark Rock Pro 4. These things also cool just as good (or bad) as most shorter (lower?) ssd coolers. But as said before it depends on placement of the M.2 connector.

To fully release the breakthrough performance of 12GB/s read speed, GIGABYTE's PCIe 5.0 supported motherboards are highly recommended.

Gigabyte recommends Gigabyte, yeah duh..

 

[Anvirol]

Pretty much 0 improvement in 4k random 1Q1T performance, which is the one thing that actually matters the most for gaming performance.

Sure, it's nice to have faster speeds incase I want to copy 200GB game from one drive to another, but it hardly warrants the price premium.

 

[Dammeron]

Pretty much 0 improvement in 4k random 1Q1T performance, which is the one thing that actually matters the most for gaming performance.

Sure, it's nice to have faster speeds incase I want to copy 200GB game from one drive to another, but it hardly warrants the price premium.

Most of the game sits in RAM so SSD performance doesn't matter that much.

 

[shoman24v]

Not that my MB supports it, but that wouldn't fit anywhere needing that chonker of a heatsink.

 

[csendesmark]

Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 12000 SSD
What a bad name, it should be called:
Gigabyte AROUS Gen5 12G 2000G

Not that my MB supports it, but that wouldn't fit anywhere needing that chonker of a heatsink.

Looks like the heatsink is detachable, if you have your own solution.
Of course you can try to use it "naked".
Actually would like to see a test with this SSD set to gen4 and see how it's throttles on "half" speeds. (for curiosity)

I'd be more excited if someone released a 250/500GB PCIe 4.0 ALL SLC NAND drive (with the highest MT/s NAND, so 2400?) that I could use strictly as an OS and a handful of important applications drive....that's going to be the best alternative to now defunct optane.

Would live to see that with a 1TB size tho!

 

[Makaveli]

Most of the game sits in RAM so SSD performance doesn't matter that much.

Then why are alot of the current games recommending SSD's if they don't matter.

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

I'd be more excited if someone released a 250/500GB PCIe 4.0 ALL SLC NAND drive (with the highest MT/s NAND, so 2400?) that I could use strictly as an OS and a handful of important applications drive....that's going to be the best alternative to now defunct optane.

A few companies will have Gen4 (Phison E18) for sale soon with SLC in 160, 320, 640, 1280, 2560GB sizes. 42 DWPD and around 6GB/s sustained write speeds.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689360447042940931

Then why are alot of the current games recommending SSD's if they don't matter.

It does matter now that games have moved from DRAM to the SSD streaming data. Before too long people will start complaining about next gen games with DirectStorage stuttering and items just appearing on the screen when moving from side to side. When you experience this, it won't be a game issue, you have the wrong SSD.

Pretty much 0 improvement in 4k random 1Q1T performance, which is the one thing that actually matters the most for gaming performance.

Sure, it's nice to have faster speeds incase I want to copy 200GB game from one drive to another, but it hardly warrants the price premium.

E26 has an 11% improvement in RR 4K QD1 over E18. It's difficult to make gains at low queue depths.

 

[skates]

I don't get the negative comments about the heat sink. Graphic cards had to add heat sinks and fans, PC cases had to add fans, CPUs had to add heat sinks and fans, Power supplies had to add fans, but for some reason adding a heat sink to an SSD is unfathomable.

Personally, I have many of these passive and active cooled heat sinks for gen 4 SSD which I test, for the fun of it.

I've only ran into a single instance where the end of the heat sink came into contact with the end of a wifi 6e card, which was the result of the MB having the SSD slot lined up right behind the PCI slot.

This particular heat sink is a decent design and there are many of this particular design that you can buy off Amazon. If I had this SSD I would remove the Aorus branded covers on the heat sink to allow for better air flow.

The best heat sink I have thus far is a passive one which is slightly smaller than this one, but is 100% cooper.

It really is not a big deal adding a heat sink to an SSD, people are over blowing the issue and installing one is very simple and there are many, many sizes.