Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 7000s Prem SSD Claims 7GB/s Sustained Performance Without Throttling
As its name implies, the Aorus Gen4 7000s Prem offers sequential read speeds of up to 7,000MB/sec. Sequential read speeds vary depending on what capacity SSD you choose. 2TB SKUs are rated for up 6,850MB/sec, while the 1TB SKU is rated for 5,500MB/sec. The SSD uses a Phison E18 controller, DDR4 DRAM cache, and 3D TLC NAND to achieve this performance.
What's crucial about this performance is that Gigabyte says that customers won't experience any throttling whatsoever during the day. According to Gigabyte's internal testing, the Aorus Gen4 7000s Prem can operate at 7,000MB/sec for over 8 hours without any degradation in performance.
Gigabyte can achieve this thanks to what it calls the M.2 Thermal Guard XTREME cooling system. The entire cooling system consists of an aluminum base plate, a high thermal conductivity pad on either side of the SSD, and the actual dual-heatpipe cooler, which a nanocarbon coating.
The only problem with this setup is that that cooler setup is massive, and you'll need to make sure that you have physical clearance with both your motherboard and case to fit it.
Gigabyte rates the Aorus Gen4 7000s Prem SSD with a 1.6 million hours MTBF, while the warranty is good for five years (or 1400 terabytes written).
At this time, we don't have pricing for this new SSD family, but the standard Aorus Gen4 7000s (without the ostentatious heatsink) is priced at $199.99 and $379.99, respectively, for the 1TB and 2TB SKUs. Expect to pay a fat premium for the Aorus Gen4 7000s Prem SKUs.
