Phison presents its ssd m.2 drives up to 8 tb pcie 4.0

Phison has announced at CES 2020 that it has been able to reduce the surface area of ​​its E12 SSD controller to allow for the deployment of large capacity SSD drives.

Phison Introduces Up to 8TB PCIe 4.0 and 16TB SATA SSDs

Users expecting larger SSDs will be excited to see progress in this regard, that of storage capacity in solid state drives. Phison introduced 8TB M.2 SSDs and a 16TB SATA SSD.

Phison's exclusive PCIe 4.0 support for its SSD drivers has made Phison drivers stand out from the rest, including OEMs like Samsung and other third-party driver vendors.

Phison showed off a fantastically large 8TB M.2 SSD, this M.2 SSD uses the Phison E12 controller. The controller is different from the standard E12 controller that we know of as the overall controller size was reduced without changing the 28nm manufacturing process, Phison has named this smaller controller as PS5012-E12S. This smaller global space being taken up by the controller allows manufacturers to fit more NAND flash memory into the unit itself.

The featured unit has four 96 micron layer QLC memory packages on each side of the unit, making a total of eight packages. Each package has a total of 1TB of capacity, making this M.2 drive a total of 8TB of capacity. The E12S controller communicates through a PCIe 4.0 x4 connection to provide speeds of up to 3, 500 MB / s sequential read speed and 3, 000 MB / s sequential write speed. This PCIe 4.0 connection also allows this unit to offer 490, 000 / 680, 000 random read / write IOPS.

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Phison also showed off a 16TB SATA SSD, which is primarily designed for NAS SSDs. As with all SATA drives, the SATA bus limits the overall performance of the drive. Even with the SATA bus limitation, this prototype drive is still capable of offering speeds of up to 550/530 MB / s read / write. This prototype drive also offers 95, 000 / 90, 000 IOPS of random read / write performance. Nothing has been said about the durability of the two units.

Phison has not commented on the price, but at the current cost of the flash which is approximately nine cents per GB, the largest 16 TB model could cost up to $ 1, 500. We will keep you informed.

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