Solid state drive
XPG Gammix S50
PCIe Gen 4 and TLC memory for a price you can afford? Jeremy Laird would never fall for that old tale…
SPECS
Capacity: 2TB
Interface: M.2 2280, PCIe 4.0 x4
Controller: Silicop Motion SM2267
NAND: Micron 96-layer TLC
DRAM
cache: 1GB
Seq.
(r/w): 3,900MB/s, 3,200MB/s
IOPS
(r/w): 490K, 540K
Endurance: 1,480TB
Warranty: Five years
We’re well through the early adopter stage of SSD PCIe4 technology, with numerous high-end PCIe 4.0 drives available, along with several value drives. The new ADATA XPG Gammix S50 Lite, sampled here in 2TB configuration and M.2 2280 format, falls into the latter category. But where some fourth-generation (Gen 4) drives achieve a lower price point by using cheap and not always terribly cheerful QLC or quad-level flash memory, ADATA has managed to price TLC or triple-level flash memory into the bargain – in this case, 96-layer Micron chips.