BIOSTAR Rolls Out M700 Series M.2 NVMe SSDs

[btarunr]

BIOSTAR today rolled out the M700 line of SSDs in the M.2-2280 form-factor with PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface, taking advantage of the NVMe 1.3 protocol. The drive combines a Silicon Motion SM2263XT DRAM-less controller with 3D NAND flash, and comes in 256 GB and 512 GB capacities. The 256 GB model offers sequential transfer speeds of up to 1,850 MB/s reads with up to 950 MB/s writes, while the 512 GB model offers up to 2,000 MB/s reads, with up to 1,600 MB/s writes. The controller features native AES 256-bit encryption. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[bonehead123]

slow & small.... betta be cheap

y.a.w.n........

 

[Kapone33]

It's Biostar and it looks like this is a QLC based drive too it better be priced accordingly. I would also like to know availability?

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

A 256GB SSD is less than $50.

A 512 SSD is less than $70

A 1TB is around $100

A 2TB is less than $199.

This better be really cheap. I see no reason to be making SSD smaller than 512GB or 1TB.

 

[Ruru]

This better be really cheap. I see no reason to be making SSD smaller than 512GB or 1TB.

Grandma's PC for reading news and watching cat videos can still do fine with a 128GB SSD.

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

Grandma's PC for reading news and watching cat videos can still do fine with a 128GB SSD.

It really depends.

When I buy my mother computer equipment, it's solely for using MS Office and PDFs.


Anything beyond that, she's using a tablet (my old iPad) or hersmartphone (I bought her an LG STYLO 4).

128GB SSD is something that should be built into the device at this point.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

a bit late in the game to release pci-e 3.0, bring on pci-e 5.0 already.