Review Gigabyte Aorus 10000 SSD Review: Bold PCIe 5.0 SSD, If You Can Find It

[Admin]

The Gigabyte Aorus 10000 is another of the first wave PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs, arriving with its own heatsink. Performance is generally better than 4.0 offerings, but the leap is not particularly huge aside from the sequential uplift.

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[kjfatl]

Where is the heat coming from? For example, is it 90% from the controller chip and 10% from the memory array? Is there a path for lower power PCIE5?

 

[UWguy]

I really wish you’d start measuring the amount of heat coming from these drives. The heat sinks are downright scary.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

I really wish you’d start measuring the amount of heat coming from these drives. The heat sinks are downright scary.

We'll look into it, but you can tell by the power figures that this size of heatsink is overkill. We're talking peak power of <12W, and that's nowhere near the average power under load of 6.7W. It's not that hard to deal with 10W of power use. The Crucial T700 had a significantly smaller heatsink and was actually faster (thanks to faster NAND).

 

[kjfatl]

Measuring the DC power in is probably sufficient unless the PCIE termination is super-power hungry.

 

[Dr3ams]

I wouldn't even consider a M.2 that needs a heat sink that size.

 

[g-unit1111]

That heat sink is completely ridiculous. How is that going to fit on any motherboard that has heat shields on it?

 

[gg83]

That slogan "team up fight on". Lmfao! Excellent gamer speak.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Have to agree with most others. These drives are hot. They seem to run very high temps over PCIe 4.

I think the heatsink is gaudy, too big of a footprint.

 

[waltc3]

What motherboard was it tested in? Nothing with a heatsink would work in my PCie4 Aorus Master--not enough clearance under my video card. Yes, those heatsinks are non-starters--too much heat, by far. My 980 Pro PCIe4 500GB NVMe SSD runs fine and cool enough at top, sustained PCIe4 speeds without a heatsink--whereas my PCIe3.0 960 EVO 250GB NVMe will not run sustained at PCIe3.0 speeds without throttling. (When the 960 EVO was my primary NVMe drive in the 0 position, I could not do an AV scan of C:\ without the drive failing to complete the scan. No problem with the 980 Pro in the 0 slot position, with the 960 moved down to the next NVMe slot. The 960 is fine for anything that isn't sustained operation.)

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I love the bend/warping the drive has.

Makes me curious if there is thermal expansion and contraction at play which will affect the reliability.

 

[Makaveli]

What motherboard was it tested in? Nothing with a heatsink would work in my PCie4 Aorus Master--not enough clearance under my video card. Yes, those heatsinks are non-starters--too much heat, by far. My 980 Pro PCIe4 500GB NVMe SSD runs fine and cool enough at top, sustained PCIe4 speeds without a heatsink--whereas my PCIe3.0 960 EVO 250GB NVMe will not run sustained at PCIe3.0 speeds without throttling. (When the 960 EVO was my primary NVMe drive in the 0 position, I could not do an AV scan of C:\ without the drive failing to complete the scan. No problem with the 980 Pro in the 0 slot position, with the 960 moved down to the next NVMe slot. The 960 is fine for anything that isn't sustained operation.)

My corsair MP600 has a heatsink and its very slim compared to this.

So you would be fine with the PCIe 4.0 version however 5.0 if they all come heatsinks this big its going to be a problem.

 

[spongiemaster]

When PCIe 6 is released, case manufacturers will have to bring back the 5.25" drive bay. Everything old really is new again.

 

[anbello262]

I'm gonna guess that the big ocie5 heatsinks are part/combination of early adopters tax with halo-tax.
If you wait a while until these drives are mainstrram, and don't go for the absolute newest and fastest, it's gonna be easy to find 10gbps drives that are ok with just the mobo heatsinks.

 

[gdmaclew]

Anyone else having a problem with the "image expander (4-headed arrow)" in the upper right-hand corner of some of the pictures?
In this article, the first and third ones don't work when you click on them but the second picture works (the one with 2 images).
I have 2 Windows 7 machines and my main Windows 10 PC and it's the same on all 3.

 

[PEnns]

"Bold PCIe 5.0 SSD, If You Can Find It"

• Performance leap over 4.0 is generally underwhelming
• Poor power efficiency

With that nasty, chunky look, dubious performance gain, (and most likely wil be way overpriced).

Conclusion: I don't want to find it!!