Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD

Other than the faster transfer speeds which are meaningless really let's be honest vs a decent gen 4 anyway, nothing else about the specs are any different vs a gen 4 drive anyway - So who are these aimed at lol. Similar MTBF, same TBW, same warranty, same DRAM cache etc etc.
 
I think I saw a benchmark for it somewhere, 12000 read and 8000 write, or something like that. While the performance is stellar, I'm assuming the temperature will also be stellar. We will get to a point where frequencies and speeds will be too high, that current manufacturing materials will no longer be sufficient for normal use. Graphene technology manufacturing definitely needs to get a move on within the next 10+ years or so.
 
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No mention of IOPS in any of their official literature AFAICT so until there's some hard numbers on that I'd avoid it like the plague.
 
Goodluck fitting that monstrosity in most motherboards, especially if it sits under the GPU. That thing has a bigger heatsink than most motherboard VRMs and all for what, a slight bump over current top end Gen 4 drives that can do 7.3GB/s without an insane heatsink.

Until they can do 12 to 14GB/s while only needing a tiny heatsink that's included with most current motherboards Gen 5 drives just aren't worth it for now.
 
StorageReview did a review of it...
www.storagereview.com

GIGABYTE Aorus 10000 Gen5 SSD Review

The GIGABYTE Aorus 10000 is the first client Gen5 SSD to hit our lab for review. It has plenty of promise with up to 10,000 MB/s throughput.
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The conclusion seems to sum up the current state of Gen5 drives...
Although Gen5 SSDs have the potential for significant advancements in speed, the current performance levels of the GIGABYTE drive do not reflect the full potential of the Gen5 interface. This is to be expected though and even GIGABYTE acknowledges that these are early days and firmware enhancements will improve drive performance. Further, the NAND shipping with these early Phison E26 drives isn’t the optimal pairing. Later this year, Phison should be able to put the E26 with optimized NAND which will put more pressure on the upward Gen5 throughput barrier.
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Basically you're better off waiting.
 
Even waiting, I would be extremely surprised if anything meaningful shows a noticeable difference in regular use, meaningful being gaming/apps.

Within throwing distance of pricing vs gen 4? Go for gen4, sure.

But if the price is always going to be a chunk higher, then the real world difference don't/won't show the price being worth it.
 
For an average user gen5 won't be worth buying until it's cheaper than gen4 and they've fixed the overheating problems
 
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