Silicon Power Set to Unveil Groundbreaking PCIe Gen 5 SSD, the XS80

[TheLostSwede]

Silicon Power (SP) is thrilled to announce its inaugural participation at the renowned Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) from October 6-8. Together with Mwave and Umart, the company's distributors in Australia, SP will offer exclusive promotions to gaming enthusiasts. The company will also showcase its cutting-edge gaming solutions, including the debut of its groundbreaking product, the XPOWER XS80 PCIe Gen 5 SSD. Taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), PAX provides the perfect backdrop for SP to unveil its latest innovation, further solidifying the brand's commitment to delivering high-performance storage solutions for gamers.

Game-Changing Gen 5 Performance with the XS80
The XS80 offers exceptional gaming performance with the latest PCIe Gen 5 technology, NVMe 2.0 support, and 232-layer 3D NAND flash, delivering twice the data transfer rate of Gen 4 and four times that of Gen 3.




It reaches mind-blowing read speeds up to 10,000 MB/s for instant load times and smooth gameplay, especially in open-world games. It also reaches incredibly impressive write speeds up to 10,000 MB/s, which speeds up installations, cut progress saving time, and reduce in-game stuttering. This SSD features active cooling with a custom-crafted aluminium alloy heatsink, intelligent thermal regulation technology, and SP Toolbox software to maintain stable performance and prevent overheating. It's available in 1 TB and 2 TB, making it ideal for gamers with large libraries and multitasking needs.

Upgrade for Less with Exclusive Online Promotions
In partnership with Mwave and Umart, gaming enthusiasts can take advantage of exclusive online promotions until October 8. SP will be offering big discounts of up to 20% off on some of its latest SSDs and DRAM. This includes three solutions that are sure to take gaming experiences to record-breaking heights: the XPOWER XS70 PCIe Gen 4 SSD and the US75 PCIe Gen 4 SSD which are compatible with the PS5, and the UD90 PCIe Gen 4 M.2 2230 SSD which is compatible with the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. Visit SP at booth #2400 to get a hands-on look at these products, plus many other game-enhancing solutions.



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[Guwapo77]

I only heard about this company a couple days ago and I must say I'm impressed with these speeds. If THEY are pulling something off like this, what do Western Digital and Samsung have up their sleeves?

 

[sLowEnd]

I only heard about this company a couple days ago and I must say I'm impressed with these speeds. If THEY are pulling something off like this, what do Western Digital and Samsung have up their sleeves?

They’ve been around for a while. I have a couple of their microSD cards from more than 10 years ago.

 

[kapone32]

Why do we persist with these Paltry 1 to 2 TB? This has been years now high time we start getting 4+ TB drives.

 

[Guwapo77]

They’ve been around for a while. I have a couple of their microSD cards from more than 10 years ago.

That's alright! I typically only buy the fastest and most reliable (within reason) whenever I do my builds. So these guys never made it on my radar. Good to know they a solid foundation.

Why do we persist with these Paltry 1 to 2 TB? This has been years now high time we start getting 4+ TB drives.

Marketing... They will introduce these in 4TB later. I highly doubt its a technically limitation at this point. I feel like folks are adopting the GPU-like release schedule, just in reverse.

 

[kapone32]

That's alright! I typically only buy the fastest and most reliable (within reason) whenever I do my builds. So these guys never made it on my radar. Good to know they a solid foundation.

To be honest it would hard to notice the difference between these drives. Windows seems to have a 2.9 GB/s limit on transfers but I don't have 5.0 drives to see if that has changed. Of course you should always get the best drive you can for your OS but mass storage is where you buy what is available. SP had the least expensive good 4.0 1st Gen drive and offered 2 TB for $299 when everyone else was $100 more.

Where is the link for the Website?

 

[chrcoluk]

That's alright! I typically only buy the fastest and most reliable (within reason) whenever I do my builds. So these guys never made it on my radar. Good to know they a solid foundation.


Marketing... They will introduce these in 4TB later. I highly doubt its a technically limitation at this point. I feel like folks are adopting the GPU-like release schedule, just in reverse.

Yep.

I am still very sceptical of course of the value in upgrading to any of this stuff from an existing fast NVME, I feel its rapidly diminishing returns unless its a optimised workflow that specifically needs this kind of storage.

Thats why we have people asking when is 4TB coming, as I assume they will upgrade for capacity reasons.

 

[Yashyyyk]

I wish you could see performance per watt scaling on Gen5 SSDs (maybe if you run it at x2? or Gen4 lol) and if they are actually better than Gen4 so you don't need these fat heatsinks/fans

 

[kapone32]

Just checked out the website. You can get the 4TB 4.0 drive for $213.72 US or $293 CAD. That is not bad and about $60 cheaper than anything on Newegg of that quality. Of course there are bare drives live the Corsair 600XT that are cheaper but come with QLC NAND.

Yep.

I am still very sceptical of course of the value in upgrading to any of this stuff from an existing fast NVME, I feel its rapidly diminishing returns unless its a optimised workflow that specifically needs this kind of storage.

Thats why we have people asking when is 4TB coming, as I assume they will upgrade for capacity reasons.

It is the only reason. It was like when SSDs came out. I am sure there were plenty of us that had 256GB, learned why OCZ first Gen SSDs were so cheap and realized the quality of Sandisk.

 

[Guwapo77]

Just checked out the website. You can get the 4TB 4.0 drive for $213.72 US or $293 CAD. That is not bad and about $60 cheaper than anything on Newegg of that quality. Of course there are bare drives live the Corsair 600XT that are cheaper but come with QLC NAND.


It is the only reason. It was like when SSDs came out. I am sure there were plenty of us that had 256GB, learned why OCZ first Gen SSDs were so cheap and realized the quality of Sandisk.

Are you sure that is the right model? The XD vs the XS

 

[W1zzard]

No fan?

 

[kapone32]

Are you sure that is the right model? The XD vs the XS

Silicon Power XS70 1TB-8TB NVMe PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive Compatible with PS5

Silicon Power XS70 NVMe PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 2280 internal solid state drive (SSD) provides extremely high read speeds up to 7,200MB/s and write speeds up to 6,800MB/s. Designed with an alumium heatsink, the XS70 enables maximum heat dissipation for laptop and PS5. The XS70 is available in 1TB, 2TB...

sp-siliconpower.com

 

[Double-Click]

Nope. I don't care if it's fast, I'm not buying an NVME that needs a turtle shell on it to keep it cool.

 

[bonehead123]

I'm impressed with these speeds.

You shouldn't be, as 10000MB/s is soooo 2022-ish, and there are several Gen 5 drives out there already that say they can reach 12-14MB/s

Why do we persist with these Paltry 1 to 2 TB?

Simply because they wanna milk the cow into buying the smaller drives at first, then later they can come back and say "Oh BTW, we are now offering 4TB drives, why don't you just upgrade again & give us even moar of your money"....Gotta love them capitalistic marketing folks !

what do Western Digital and Samsung have up their sleeves?

They both have their own Gen 5 drives incoming soon, with same or better speeds, so stay tuned for the announcements

 

[TumbleGeorge]

can reach 12-14MB/s

I hope do not !

 

[bonehead123]

I hope do not !

And why not ?

"I feel the need, the need, for (more) supppeeed" -Maverick & Goose

But just think, as soon as these drives get a little faster, you can turn off or remove your entire home heating system and use the money you save to upgrade your A/C /s

 

[TumbleGeorge]

And why not ?

"I feel the need, the need, for (more) supppeeed" -Maverick & Goose

But just think, as soon as these drives get a little faster, you can turn off or remove your entire home heating system and use the money you save to upgrade your A/C /s

Because megabytes per second.

 

[DJ_Cas]

Nice marketing showing "No buy please as it heats as hell"

 

[b1k3rdude]

So as usual sequentials that most people wont see, where are the 4k random rear/write speeds..?

 

[Ferrum Master]

NVMe 2.0 support

So important , greatest addon there is support for mechanical drives

 

[Easo]

Classic marketing, because by this point these speeds for 5.0 are standard, not ground breaking.

 

[ypsylon]

Its dangerous to even buy them. Ground breaking, last thing I need is an earthquake when starting a PC.

Bad puns aside, SP is just another dirt cheap Chinese vendor. Had fair stack of SP drives in my hands. Neither was even remotely decent in terms of performance or reliability in reality. Stickers and paper are very patient, you can write any garbage on them.

At this moment in time M.2 rapidly becomes obsolete standard. Enterprise abandons it in droves for new form factors like E.3. I don't get it who would buy drives like these, when they can draw like 20W of power in such small footprint. Its madness without metric ton of airflow or liquid cooling. M.2 was supposed to be small connector with very little footprint for laptops and microdevices. Now they are so fat and ginormous it makes no sense to get one. Want something which won't melt under its own performance then get U.3 drive in 15mm variety + cable and adapter. It's much, much easier to keep cool. Me personally not getting anything M.2 above Gen.4, not that I'm very interested in Gen 4, because there is 0 performance difference between Ge3,4,5 unless you literally trash the drive relentlessly with TB of sequential writes every day (by design you need enterprise grade drive for this with at least 1DWPD rating). Sequential Reads/Writes is something that home user (Gaming-type) does about 0.05% across whole lifespan of drive, which makes 7000 or 10000MB value meaningless.

 

[Prima.Vera]

10GB/s at 100°C

 

[Solid State Soul ( SSS )]

There is only one gen 5 ssd configuration that is a Phison E22 controller with micron 232 layers nand, which have been rebranded by every company as a unique gen 5 ssd, i doubt silicon power is doing anything different here

 

[sephiroth117]

Frankly I recently bought a gen 4 PS5 compatible SSD, like 2 To for less than 150 EUR.

I don't see the need for gen 5 in my case (gaming, light productivity), I'd rather take the lower energy consumption, passive cooling (albeit gen 5 is getting there too like shown) and price of gen 4
directstorage 1.x works wonder with a PS5 compatible SSD (> 5.5Gbps).

For servers and people with extremely demanding IO workloads it's totally understandable tho.

At one point I will upgrade of course, if we all said that a intel core duo was enough we would have 0 innovations but, like DDR5, it will truly shine in multiple years price and performance wise.