Drives with read and write speeds in excess of 10 GB/s are now available to consumers, but speed comes at a price – and not just money. Japanese enthusiast @momomo_us was one of the first to install a PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive in his computer and was pleasantly surprised.
CFD Gaming’s 2TB hard drive is the first to hit the Japanese retail market. To solve the heating problem, CFD put a heatsink on it with a small fan. A storage device with such a cooling system will not always be able to be used with standard radiators from the motherboard kit.
As @momomo_us made sure, during the tests the fan worked at very high speeds and very loudly – much louder than the stock Intel cooler for the Core i7-13700K processor used in the tests. The noise is most likely due to heavy usage when testing the storage, and it may not be that loud all the time – but it’s a factor to consider when buying a drive.
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The good news is that the drive can easily exceed the 10GB/s sequential read and write speeds as promised by the manufacturer. It should be noted that a smaller capacity will have a slightly slower write speed (~9.5 GB/s). CFD’s 2TB SSD is available in Japan for around $385.
Platforms that support PCI Express have been available to consumers for over a year, but SSDs with PCI Express support are only now on sale. Even months after AMD and Intel introduced the latest system logic with enhanced support for PCIe Gen5 devices, there are virtually no high-speed SSDs on the market.
It seems that the dream of assembling a powerful and at the same time quiet PC is getting further and further away from realization. Modern hot video cards can melt power supplies and adapters, and in some cases melt themselves. For hot components, water cooling is increasingly used, the radiators of which also need to be blown.
If previously the source of noise was HDDs using mechanical rotation, now they have been replaced by fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs with active cooling. At the junction of the limits of silicon capabilities and modern technologies, chip heating is increasing. Perhaps the situation will be at least partly corrected by the widespread adoption of the energy-efficient ARM architecture.
DirectStorage makes PCIe 3.0 SSDs as fast in games as PCIe 5.0 drives – Forspoken test data
Source: VideoCardz
