The Silicon Movement SM2264 Controller In Motion
To this point we have now solely seen the press releases related to the eight channel SM2264 controller, with in home benchmark outcomes, however that modifications with TweakTown’s evaluate of the ADATA XPG Legend 960. The drive ships with 512Gbit Micron 176-layer B47R TLC flash chips paired with a 1GB DDR4 cache. ADATA additionally provides the drive a 5 12 months guarantee, or 780 TBW for the 1GB mannequin and 1560 TBW for the 2TB drive.
The efficiency is uniformly spectacular, aside from sequential reads which aren’t one thing an SSD is requested to do fairly often. When TweakTown seemed on the general significant efficiency they described the drive as “the seventh best-performing flash-based SSD we’ve ever examined“. It hasn’t arrived in shops but, however once you mix the efficiency with a value anticipated to be round $0.12/GB that is one PCIe 4.0 SSD you must seize if you’re increasing your storage.