News Adata Teases First SMI-Powered PCIe 5.0 SSD, New CXL DDR5 Card

[Admin]

Adata showed off its new PCIe 5.0 SSD and a CXL DDR5 memory device at CES 2023.

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[DotNetMaster777]

CES innovation award it is good start ! !

Could it be possible to buy new SDD device soon ? ? ? ?

How this new SSD can be pre-order ? ? ?

 

[HideOut]

You are really talking about an item that the controller wont even go into production for over a year, and thats if there is no delays? So its summer 2024, AT BEST.

 

[mikewinddale]

but they [CXL memory] are reserved for custom orders for large hyperscalers and the like, so you won't see them at retail.

I hope that someone makes them retail. I needed 512 GB of RAM for a research project, but most of the time, I only need about 64 GB. So I had to build a ThreadRipper Pro system with some hella expensive RDIMMs, even though most of the time, a Ryzen would suffice for me.

It would be nice to be able to build a consumer-grade Ryzen system with a more pedestrian amount of RAM (say, 128 GB), and then install 512 GB of slower CXL for the rare time that more RAM is needed. I assume that the PCIe 5.0 x4 CXL will be cheaper per GB than straight DDR5 DIMMs.

AMD says it is bringing CXL to consumer CPUs, so I would love to be able to pair a Ryzen with ECC DIMMs and CXL memory. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-working-to-bring-cxl-technology-to-consumer-cpus

 

[ArcBlade]

"SM 2508 is only a four-channel controller "
That's wrong.
SM 2508 is an 8CH controller, since you can not get a 14GB/s seq. read/write speed in 4 channels with today's best 2400MT/s NAND.

The same mistake hits https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pcie-5-ssds-due-this-year too.

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[bit_user]

You are really talking about an item that the controller wont even go into production for over a year, and thats if there is no delays? So its summer 2024, AT BEST.

I find it rather perplexing they've announced and are showing a prototype of a product that won't be available for over a year. It makes me wonder if someone made a mistake on the year, and it's just getting copied/pasted everywhere.

 

[InvalidError]

I assume that the PCIe 5.0 x4 CXL will be cheaper per GB than straight DDR5 DIMMs.

The CXL memory itself will likely be more expensive due to the need for a special PCIe-DDR5 bridge chip. You would save on the total platform cost from not needing to go server/TR4Pro to get the extra memory assuming consumer platforms can talk CXL.

As for going consumer, I have been hypothesizing for a few years that once Intel and AMD start putting 8+GB of on-package memory of some sort (ex.: HBM stacks with the 'base die' functionality embedded in the active interposer or the HBM dies stacked directly on IOD/CCD/GCD/etc. dies to reduce costs and latency), DDR5/6 may get dropped in favor of extra PCIe/CXL lanes for CXL memory or other uses.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Who cares? This is adata we’re talking about. And I will never buy one no matter what they say or do because they’re hot garbage and they always will be.