Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2019

Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen 4 review: The first PCIe 4.0 SSD has arrived

One of the big attractions of choosing a new AMD Ryzen 3000 build at the moment is the fact it supports the new, super fast PCIe 4.0 standard. You’ll need to pair your new 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU with one of AMD’s equally new (not to mention expensive) X570 motherboards to make use of it, of course, but the potential benefits are massive – particularly when it comes to SSDs. Previously, PCIe 3.0 motherboards were limited to speeds of 16GB/s in one direction, but PCIe 4.0 doubles that bandwidth to 32GB/s. That’s huge, and could a massive game changer for cutting down on loading times and transferring extra large files around your PC.

PCIe 4.0 SSDs are still pretty thin on the ground at the moment, but the first one to make it out of the gate is Gigabyte’s thrillingly named Aorus NVMe Gen4 SSD, which was sent to me along with my initial Ryzen 7 3700X testing pack. Available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, this hunk of copper delivers some seriously fast read and write speeds, but will also burn quite a large hole in your wallet at the same time. Brace yourselves, cause here’s wot I think.

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