New PCIe Gen 5 controller coming to SSDs next year with high IOPS - SM2508

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Frankly outside of specific applications you don't notice a lot of difference from older SSDs through to the latest high end NVMEs I find it hard to get excited by stuff like this - though one thing which was nice was changing my old NAS storage from a bunch of HDDs to using a NVME frontend with sync to HDD - when doing stuff like opening a folder with lots of thumbnails or even pulling a large video file off over gigabit let alone 2.5 or 10gb LAN there is a noticeable difference even to a 4 disc RAID of HDDs setup for both performance and redundancy.

And it only needs a pair of NVME drives in RAID 1 on PCIe3x1 to saturate a 10Gb link. I had six HDDs in RAID 10 and the best they could manage was 4Gbps

 

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No sign of a consumer class drive with 2 million random read/ random write IOPS yet, as least not that I could find. I think these will probably become available next year.

Models with the SM2508 controller could be the first.

Silicon Motion said SSDs with SM2508 controllers will become available in the next few months this year. TweakTown was first tech site reviewed Silicon Motion 1TB with SM2508 controller sample.

Silicon Motion SM2508 SSD Controller Review - Worth the Wait

After nearly two years of waiting, Silicon Motion is about to unleash its first client PCIe Gen5 SSD controller in the SM2508, and it's a game-changer.

www.tweaktown.com

Tom's Hardware was the 2nd tech site tested sample.

Silicon Motion SM2508 SSD review: Finally, a true PCIe 5.0 contender

Power efficiency puts the Phison E26 and InnoGrit IG5666 to shame, with good performance as well.

www.tomshardware.com

Silicon Motion SM2508 1TB has 2 million random read/write IOPS, 2TB and 4TB models has 2.5 million random read/write IOPS.

We have to wait and see when Samsung will launch Gen 5 990 EVO Plus and 9100 PRO SSDs with Gen 9 V-NANDs. I think probably next month because the last time Samsung launched 990 PRO 1TB/2TB SSDs was on 18 October 2022.

 

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Seemingly, no cons with this gen 5 controller.

 

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Samsung Gen 5 (5nm) drives are now in production:

Samsung Starts Mass Production of Industry’s Most Powerful PC SSD Optimal for AI Applications | Samsung Semiconductor EMEA

Integrating Samsung’s 5nm controller and eighth-generation V-NAND, PM9E1 provides unmatched performance and power efficiency suitable for AI PCs

semiconductor.samsung.com

Samsung starts production of its fastest SSD for PCs

The PCIe 5.0 SSD can reach 14.5 GB/s read and 13 GB/s write speeds. Samsung announced it has begun mass production of its fastest SSD for PCs. The PCIe...

www.gsmarena.com

Don’t yet know what the IOPS will be.