News Silicon Motion Demos PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller Up to 13.6 GBps

[Admin]

Silicon Motion's MonTitan SM8366 PCIe Gen5 enterprise SSD controller works with all types of 3D TLC and QLC NAND, beating Phison's PCIe Gen5 platform.

Silicon Motion Demos PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller Up to 13.6 GBps : Read more

 

[Nikolay Mihaylov]

As youtuber Buildzoid puts it: "for file copying enthusiasts".

Please increase the random 4k IO. Sequential speeds have been more than enough for 5 years already.

 

[cyrusfox]

Couple Thoughts

• To those only wanting to buy a Mobo that has M.2 PCIE gen 5 support, you may get a drive mid next year to utilize it.
• Sure Wish Optane was still around to release a P6800x to own this space, sad
• what we really need to see is minimum sustained write speeds, most drives blow as soon as you run out of cache(40-400MB/s). For sustained metrics this is what matters not the initial burst.
  • Passmark only writes 800MB in its test, user benchmark only does 90GB... With how large some of the SLC cache seems like it should be dynamic based on total drive size, say last 3% of fill during a 1/4 drive fill.

 

[samopa]

"Silicon Motion's MonTitan SM8366 SSD platform (opens in new tab) is designed primarily for enterprise-grade SSDs. It features 16 NAND flash channels with a 2400 MTps ONFI/Toggle interface to connect up to 128TB of 3D TLC, 3D QLC, or XL-Flash memory. The controller supports DDR4-3200 and DDR5-4800 DRAM buffers with a dual-channel interface and a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface or dual independent x2/x2 or x1/x1 interfaces to connect to host (s). "

Enterprise grade SSDs usually have another significant feature which is hot-swap-able, that's why they usually come with U.2 (support hot-swap) instead of M.2 (does not support hot-swap).

 

[spongiemaster]

As youtuber Buildzoid puts it: "for file copying enthusiasts".

Is even that a valid use case? Network transfers are obviously a no go, so wouldn't you need another equally fast local storage medium to copy to to get that speed? Do boards with more than one PCIe 5.0 nvme slot exist?