Patriot Viper Shows Off Swanky New Gen 5 NVMe SSDs, Fast Gen 4 SSDs, and More Storage Products This CES

[btarunr]

Patriot Memory showed off its fastest gaming PC storage solutions at the 2023 International CES. The star attraction is an unnamed prototype M.2 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD which features active cooling. This is actually the second Gen 5 SSD we've come across today that has active cooling, signaling that future NVMe SSDs are about to get hot. The ES drive comes in capacities ranging between 1 TB to 4 TB, features a PCI-Express 5.0 x4 interface with NVMe 2.0 protocol, an unknown controller+flash combination, and claimed performance of up to 12 GB/s sequential reads, with up to 10 GB/s sequential writes.

Among the other internal drives shown are the Viper P450, a Gen 4 NVMe drive offering sequential speeds of up to 7 GB/s and up to 6 GB/s writes; and capacities ranging between 512 Gb to 2 TB; a more cost-effective VPR450 drive based on a DRAMless Phison Gen 4 controller offering up to 6 GB/s reads and up to 5 GB/s writes. The Viper VXD is an external SSD enclosure meant for M.2-2280 PCIe SSDs. It offers a USB-C connection, which connects to a Realtek RTL9210B chip that converts a 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 uplink to a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 downlink, offering sequential transfer rates of up to 1 GB/s.



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[wolar]

wth is that fan...

 

[Lovec1990]

wth is that fan...

yes Sadly PCIe 5.0 m,2 SSDs tend to get hot

 

[robert3892]

Just curious when these gen 5 NVMe SSDs will be available to consumers to buy.

 

[bonehead123]

Next headline from CES:

Fully LN2 immersion-cooled Gen 12.637 m.2 nvme announced by xxx mfgr.....it's only 3 slots wide...and requires a direct 120v AC wall plug.... and only weighs 9.47Kg too, all for the low, low price of $2.278k /s

 

[MachineLearning]

wth is that fan...

Fans just spin. Who ever said air needed to pass through?

 

[jesdals]

Cant help to wonder if that fan on the gen 5 ssd would pull it out of the socket

 

[Hakker]

wth is that fan...

Why is that strange? the speed at which it can transfer data is ridiculous Adata has shown an XPG SSD with one too. When operating at full speed they get hot and start throttling. adding a fan will not stop it from throttling but it will make it take longer before that happens.
I'm more worried about the thickness since most m2 slots are where you put GPU's and other PCIe cards over it. The slot might become unusable because of the thickness of the cooler.