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Silicon Motion Launches PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Controllers
Silicon Motion has announced the official launch of their first generation of PCIe 4.0-capable NVMe SSD controllers. These controllers have been on the roadmap for quite a while and have been previewed at trade shows, but the first models are now shipping. The high-end SM2264 and mainstream SM2267/SM2267XT controllers will enable consumer SSDs that move beyond the performance limits of the PCIe 3.0 x4 interface that has been the standard for almost all previous consumer NVMe SSDs.
The high-end SM2264 controller is the successor to Silicon Motion's SM2262(EN) controllers, and the SM2264 brings the most significant changes that add up to a doubling of performance. The SM2264 still uses 8 NAND channels, but now supporting double the speed: up to 1600MT/s. The controller includes four ARM Cortex R8 cores, compared to two cores on SMI's previous client/consumer NVMe controllers. As with most SSD controllers aiming for the high end PCIe 4.0 product segment, the SM2264 is fabbed on a smaller node: TSMC's 12nm FinFET process, which allows for substantially better power efficiency than the 28nm planar process used by the preceding generation of SSD controllers. The SM2264 also includes support for some enterprise-oriented features like SR-IOV virtualization, though we probably won't see that enabled on consumer SSD products. The SM2264 also includes the latest generation of Silicon Motion's NANDXtend ECC system, which switches from a 2kb to 4kB codeword size for the LDPC error correction.
Also at Guru3D.
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday October 23 2020, @02:38AM (3 children)
I read most drives run on PCI Express 3.0 x4 3.940GB/s.
PCI Express 4.0 x4 will be 7.880GB/s.
Are there drives maxing the 3.9GB/s? Next question, how fast will PCI Express 4.0 drives be? Anything close to 7.8GB/s.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Friday October 23 2020, @03:26AM (1 child)
PS5 will do 5.5 GB/s (claims of more include compression).
Various SSDs can max PCIe 3.0 x4 out or get close.
This list [tomshardware.com] includes:
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro (1TB)
PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3
Sequential Reads/Writes: 3,500 MBps / 3,000 MBps
SK hynix Gold P31 (1TB)
PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3
Sequential Reads/Writes: 3,500 MBps / 3,200 MBps
Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 (2TB)
PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3
Sequential Reads/Writes: 5,000 MBps / 4,400 MBps
You can already get close to 7.8 GB/s:
https://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/best-m-2-nvme-ssd/ [gamingpcbuilder.com]
SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 1TB - PCIe 4.0
7,000 MB/s (sequential read) and 5,000 MB/s (sequential write)
Now you'll start to see more PCIe 4.0 drives. The less expensive ones will not be hitting 7 GB/s, probably.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 27 2020, @01:34AM
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=samsung-980-pro&num=1 [phoronix.com]
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday October 23 2020, @07:42PM
https://www.notebookcheck.net/PNY-XLR8-M-2-Gen-4-NVMe-SSDs-launching-in-same-month-as-the-Playstation-5-but-they-probably-won-t-be-compatible.498982.0.html [notebookcheck.net]
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