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AORUS RAID SSD 2TB PCIe x8 card
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▲ 2TB PCIe AORUS RAID SSD Card
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GIGABYTE released the new “2TB PCIe AORUS RAID SSD Card”, mainly for motherboards that do not yet support PCIe 4.0, such as Intel X299 / Z390 / Z490 platform, you can also experience ultra high speed streaming experience as PCIe 4.0 SSD , and supports RAID 0 / 1/10 matrix mode will be an ideal choice for engineers who edit 4K images, perform 3D rendering operations, and need to process large files frequently.
▲ Aluminum and metal radiator 2mm thick
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The appearance of “2TB AORUS PCIe RAID SSD Card” is a bit like single slot VGA card, the size is 265.3mm x 120.1mm x 19.8mm, the whole card is covered with aluminum alloy casing, surface silver gray and brushed anodized metal treatment, quite texture
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▲ There is an aluminum alloy back plate on the back
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It adopts PCI Express x16 interface, Gen 3 x8 speed, the highest frequency bandwidth is up to 64Gbps, and the power consumption of the whole card is only 7.5W when idle, the average power consumption of read and write is 19W, default module is RAID 0 array, if you want to use OS Drive CSM module should be disabled in BIOS.
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▲ 5cm cooling fan ▲ PCIe 3.0 x8 lane compatible
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Equipped with a 5cm cooling fan, it supports 3-stage wind speed adjustment. The cold wind will be attracted to the fan and come into contact with the hottest area of the SSD through multiple heat sinks, and then discharge directly out of the chassis. 9 temperature sensors are incorporated to monitor the operating temperature of the SSD and RAID controllers.
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▲ 5.5mm thick extruded aluminum heat sink on SSD
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To meet the heat dissipation requirements of 4 NVMe SSDs, the AORUS “PCIe RAID SSD 2TB Card” incorporates a 5.5mm thick aluminum extruded heat sink. The RAID chips and power supplies also incorporate separate heat sinks to ensure they don’t fall under long-term load speed.
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Mavell 88NR2241 NVMe Switch chip
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▲ Chip Mavell 88NR2241 NVMe Switch
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The AORUS “PCIe RAID SSD 2TB PCIe Card” uses the NVMe Marvell 88NR2241 RAID controller, which is primarily used for storage applications such as workstations, virtualized clouds, and enterprise data centers. Supports PCIe Gen3 x8 Lanes, can connect 4 NVMe SSDs, and can support up to 6.4GB / s performance, 1,600,000 random read and write IOPS, maximum support of 8TB x 4 capacity, in fact, GIGABYTE has not reached its maximum potential.
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▲ 4 PCIe x2 Lanes M.2 ports
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The card body is built with 4 x 512GB GIGABYTE NVMe SSDs, total 2TB capacity, M.2 2280 form factor, PCI Express 3.0 x 4 transmission interface, compatible with NVMe 1.3 transmission specifications, each SSD provides 700TBW write life, MTBF up to 177 Ten thousand hours
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▲ 512GB GIGABYTE NVMe SSD
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Adopt PHISON PS5012-E12S main controller, 28nm process, Taiwan TSMC OEM, adopt 8 channel design, up to 32CE, 96 layer stack and 8TB support, PCIe Gen3 x4 interface support, NVMe transmission standard 1.3, fourth generation support SmartECC LDPC debugging technology, AES-256 / TCG Opal / TCG Pyrite security encryption.
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▲ PHISON PS5012-E12S controller
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For NAND Flash, each SSD has a total of 4 TOSHIBA Toogle 2.0 3D TLC particles on the front and rear of the PCB, 16 layers, a single 126GB capacity, 15nm process, BGA pack lead-free, halogen-free, compatible with 3.3V Toogle 2.0 mode, total Provide 512GB capacity.
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▲ TOSHIBA 15nm 3D TLC Particles ▲ Kingston DDR3L 256MB cache
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Built-in high-speed 256MB DDR3L memory particles, used to store FTL and cache data, can effectively improve read and write speed, plus random write data is processed by SLC block, can provide a fast response time similar to SSD SLC, AND continuous writes are passed directly to the TLC block.
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Supports AORUS Storage Manager
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▲ AORUS Storage Manager software interface
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AORUS “2TB SSD RAID PCIe Card” provides special software for Storage Manager, which can detect SSD usage status, SSD working temperature, adjust fan speed etc., supports Silent, Balance , Performance speed to choose from.
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Supports RAID 0/1/10 mode
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▲ The Marvell NVMe option will appear in the BIOS
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The “AORUS 2TB RAID PCIe SSD Card” is configured by default in RAID 0 array. If you want to switch to RAID 1 or RAID 10 mode, users must use AORUS motherboard, enter the board BIOS interface base, select-> Configuration-> I / O Ports-> Marvell NVMe Configuration Utility, you can enter the SSD configuration menu.
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▲ Supports RAID 0/1/10 mode
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Select Create RAID configuration-> Go to RAID configuration-> RAID level, you can choose RAID 0/1/10 array mode, RAID 0 is the parallel connection of all SSDs, the fastest speed, the highest capacity, but There is no redundancy feature, nor is fault tolerant, RAID 1 reflects all SSDs without acceleration, but data is maximized and storage capacity is only 512GB; RAID 10 is dividing 4 SSDs into 2 RAID 0 groups and then combining them into RAID 1 Operation, balanced performance and data security, storage capacity is 1TB
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Performance test:
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CPU: Intel Core i9-9900KF
MB: GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS MASTER
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance DDR4-3200 CL16 16GB Kit
SSD: 2TB PCIe AORUS RAID SSD Card
OS: Windows 10 Processional 1909
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ATTO Disk Benchmark:
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ATTO Disk Benchmark is a disk performance test tool released by ATTO. The test uses a data size of 256 MB, which increases the data size to 64 MB according to different 0.5K, 1K, 2K and tests the effect of different file sizes on the disk write speed. , The test results are expressed in a bar graph. It uses the sequential write method to test the best disk read and write capacity, which is the benchmark theoretical test for the highest performance of branded products in the industry.
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ATTO disk benchmark results show that under the direct I / O and QD4 configuration, the “PCIe RAID SSD 2TB PCIe Card” has a maximum read speed of 5.82GB / s and a write speed of 5.66GB / s.
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CrystalDiskMark test:
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CrystalDiskMark is a suite of disk test programs developed by Japanese Miyazaki Hirohiyo, providing continuous disk read and write, random read and random write speeds of 512 KB and 4KB, and a 4K queue depth of 32 Multiplexed throughput of Reading and writing.
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Tested through the CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 release, the Q8T1 continuous read and write speed of the AORUS “2TB SSD RAID PCIe Card” is 6480.85 MB / s read and 6172.39 MB / s write respectively; 4K Q32T16 Random Multiplex Read & Write Speed is 2941.23 MB / s Read, 2849.62 MB / s Write; Q1T1 single thread continuous read and write speed is 3,140.48 MB / s read, 4,273.07 MB / s write; 1-thread 4K random read and write speed is 52.8 MB / s, 180.26 MB / s write.
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As a benchmark SSD test:
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AS SSD Benchmark is also one of the main benchmarks for testing SSD in the industry. Without using system memory acceleration, the read and write performance and speed of SSDs are tested by reading and writing large 1GB files.
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The performance benchmark score of “AORUS 2TB PCIe RAID SSD Card” on AS SSD Benchmark is 7725, among which the read performance score is 2527, the write performance score is 3914, and the read performance and 4K random write with a queue depth value of 64 is 1,999.95 MB / s read and 3,250.66 MB / s write, performance is satisfactory.
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Copy-Benchmark is provided to simulate copying files in different situations. In the “ISO” test, two large ISO image files will be copied to the test target. In the “Program” test, a large number of files of random size will be written. Finely divided files. The typical simulation program folder generally has many small files; In the “Game” test, a large file and a small number of finely divided files are written. The simulated game folder usually contains a large game body file and some small material files, etc.
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The results show that the write speed of the simulated copy ISO image file reached 2,059.04 MB / s, the typical speed of the simulated copy program folder was 1456.21 MB / s, and the speed of the game folder of the simulated copy was also 2049.69 MB / s, the performance was very high Excellent
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Copy-Benchmark is provided to simulate copying files in different situations. In the “ISO” test, two large ISO image files will be copied to the test target. In the “Program” test, a large number of files of random size will be written. Finely divided files. The typical simulation program folder generally has many small files; In the “Game” test, a large file and a small number of finely divided files are written. Material files, etc.
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The results show that the write speed of the simulated copy ISO image file reached 3,039.77 MB / s, the typical speed of the simulated copy program folder is 219.53 MB / s, and the speed of the The simulated copy’s game folder is also 749.11 MB /.
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Anvil Storage Utilities Test:
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Anvil’s Storage Benchmark is a suite of professional disk performance test software, which has built-in IO Threaded test procedures, which can analyze the performance of multiplexed read-on-disk, mixed-read and read-write queue depth 4K 32 .
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In terms of IOPS performance, 4K QD128 Registered Read 575,447.3 IOPS, 4K QD64 Registered Write 835,746.6 IOPS, 4K QD64 Mixed Read / Write Registered 638,729.0 IOPS, and finally scored 18,702.84 points in Anvil’s Storage Benchmark test results.
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PCMark 10 storage test:
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The PCMark 10 Storage test simulates the speed of computer storage devices to read and write document software, art software, games, and other programs, and can reflect the performance of opening or archiving programs when used in real life .
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In the PCMark 10 storage test, the “AORUS PCIe SSD 2TB RAID Card” scored 1,919. After combining different usage scenarios, the average bandwidth was 309.35MB / s and the performance was satisfactory.
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2TB PCIe AORUS RAID SSD Card
Price: to be determined
Inquiries: Synnex HK (+852 2753-1688)
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Edit comment:
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The 2TB PCIe AORUS RAID SSD card is well suited for workstations on the Intel platform. It provides read and write speeds of up to 6.3 GB / s read and write under the old PCIe Gen 3 x8 specifications. It can also support RAID 0/1/10 array mode, users can choose between speed and data security.
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