The Aorus Gen4 7000s Premium SSD is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on January 15th, 2021. It is available in capacities ranging from 1 TB to 2 TB. This page reports specifications for the 1 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Aorus Gen4 7000s Premium SSD interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5018-E18-41 from Phison, a DRAM cache chip is available. Aorus has installed 96-layer TLC NAND flash on the Gen4 7000s Premium SSD, the flash chips are made by Micron. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are handled more quickly. The cache is sized at 112 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 1100 MB/s. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 690 MB/s. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The Gen4 7000s Premium SSD is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s and 5,500 MB/s write; random IO reaches 350K IOPS for read and 700K for writes.
The SSD's price at launch is unknown. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Aorus guarantees an endurance rating of 700 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.