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PCIe 5.0 NVME drives have begun to trickle out and it’s not good news for SFF rigs right now. It would seem that cooling is becoming an absolute necessity for consistent performance. In this instance, Gigabyte has launched the Aorus Gen5 10000 NVME SSD, and has an “optional” twin heatpipe cooler. Performance is, of course, impressive if the claimed numbers are true. Sequential read speed clocks in at 9,500MB/s while sequential write speed is a very quick 8,500MB/s. The drive also features DDR4 cache, which is something many drives have been cutting in recent days. However, all of this performance requires good thermal management.
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