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G.SKILL launches Phoenix Blade Series 480GB PCIe SSD

by Mark Tyson on 22 October 2014, 11:05

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High performance memory specialist G.SKILL has announced the 480GB Phoenix Blade Series PCIe SSD. The Taiwanese firm says that this next gen memory product is "the perfect storage solution for extreme gaming, professional graphic design, industrial design, and HD video & audio content creation". The "extreme read and write performance" on offer allows it to make the most of the speed on offer from today's multi-core processor based systems, asserts G.SKILL.

The G.SKILL Phoenix Blade PCIe SSD is built with four LSI SF-2281 SSD controllers in a RAID0 setup, integrated with 480GB array of MLC flash. That should provide 4X the bandwidth of a typical SATA3 SSD says G.SKILL. As you will have guessed from the name the drive connects via a computer PCIe slot. It is designed to be utilised in a PCIe Gen 2.0 x8 high-speed slot.

Thanks to the above hardware configuration the performance on offer is quoted by the manufacturer to be as follows:

  • Up to 2,000MB/s Extreme Read and Write Performance
  • Up to 245K IOPS 4KB Random Write

In other features the G.SKILL Phoenix Blade PCIe SSD supports TRIM with newer versions of Windows and S.M.A.R.T. attributes for drive health status monitoring. G.SKILL has implemented enhanced data protection; "By implementing BCH ECC of up to 55 bits per sector and RAID-5-like data protection, flash cell errors and page/block failures are yesterday’s news," claims the firm.

Buyers of G.SKILL Phoenix Blade PCIe SSDs will receive a 3 year warranty. In the press release sent to HEXUS the firm didn't disclose pricing or availability.



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This is not an NVMe drive and you must be very impatient to buy one (assuming it is cheaper than the P3700). Who knows what performance and data corruption issues you will get with such a complicated setup (four SATA controllers and a RAID controller to go wrong).

I'd wait for the real deal
semo
This is not an NVMe drive and you must be very impatient to buy one (assuming it is cheaper than the P3700). Who knows what performance and data corruption issues you will get with such a complicated setup (four SATA controllers and a RAID controller to go wrong).

I'd wait for the real deal

Was just about to ask if it's NVMe so I'm the same as you, waiting for NVMe PCIe SSD's….
Who wants to take bets on how long it'd last before you'd see problems arise?
semo
This is not an NVMe drive and you must be very impatient to buy one (assuming it is cheaper than the P3700). Who knows what performance and data corruption issues you will get with such a complicated setup (four SATA controllers and a RAID controller to go wrong).

I'd wait for the real deal

Not only that, but they're Sandforce controllers. I'll be staying clear of this one too. The wait for consumer NVMe SSDs goes on…!
Nice concept, but like the previous comments said, could be a bit problematic. I think most people are gonna wait for reviews/customer feedback before buying this. 4 times the bandwidth of an SSD is still pretty attractive