Palit Microsystems, which owns quite a lot of GPU manufacturers, entered SSD market a bit greater than two years in the past with entry-level choices to simplify product growth and keep away from competitors. While Palit primarily sells ultra-high-end video playing cards and has a great deal of performance-minded clientele, for these clients the corporate is now rolling out its high-end GALAX Hall of Fame SSDs based mostly on a complicated controller and that includes a complicated cooling system.
The GALAX Hall of Fame drives are based mostly on Phison’s PS5012-E12 controller (NVMe 1.3, eight NAND channels with 32 CE targets, a DDR4/DDR3L interface for DRAM caching, LDPC, and many others.), Toshiba’s BiCS 3D NAND flash (256 Gb 64L 3D TLC is the almost definitely), and have a PCIe 3.1 x4 interface. The drives are provided in 512 GB, 1 TB, and a couple of TB configurations, which to a big diploma emphasizes their premium positioning.
Depending on the model, the HOF SSDs are available in M.2-2280 module in addition to HHHL card form-factors. The latter contains a CNC-machined cooling system with a warmth pipe to make sure constant efficiency of the drives underneath excessive hundreds, whereas the previous has a typical heatsink in addition to RGB LEDs managed utilizing proprietary software program.
When it involves efficiency, the drives supply one thing that one would count on from a Phison PS5012-E12-powered system. The GALAX Hall of Fame SSDs declare to offer as much as 3400 MB/s sequential learn speeds, as much as 3000 MB/s sequential write speeds (2 TB HHHL model, see the desk beneath for precise specs of different drives), in addition to as much as 460Okay/660Okay random learn/write IOPS. Meanwhile, it’s noteworthy that equally configured M.2 and HHHL drives are rated for various efficiency ranges, which signifies that the SSDs are tuned otherwise (probably due to warmth dissipation of the controller).
| GALAX HOF SSDs Specifications | |||
| Capacity | 512 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB |
| Controller | Phison PS5012-E12 | ||
| NAND Flash | Toshiba 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC (?) | ||
| Interface | PCIe 3.1 x4 | ||
| Form-Factor | M.2-2280 | M.2-2280 HHHL |
M.2-2280 HHHL |
| Sequential Read | 3.four GB/s | 3.four GB/s | 3.four GB/s |
| Sequential Write | 2 GB/s | M.2: 2.eight GB/s HHHL: Three GB/s |
M.2: 2.eight GB/s HHHL: Three GB/s |
| Random Read IOPS | 400,000 | M.2: 400,000 HHHL: 440,000 |
M.2: 400,000 HHHL: 440,000 |
| Random Write IOPS | 540,000 | M.2: 600,000 HHHL: 660,000 |
M.2: 600,000 HHHL: 660,000 |
| Idle Power Consumption | < 900 mW (?) | ||
| PCIe L1.2 Idle | < 2 mW (?) | ||
| Pseudo-SLC Caching | Yes | ||
| DRAM Buffer | Yes | ||
| TCG Opal Encryption | Yes | ||
| Warranty | Three years | ||
One attention-grabbing characteristic of the GALAX Hall of Fame SSDs is bundled Xtreme Tuner For SSD utility designed by the corporate. The program helps monitoring of the drive (temperature, endurance, and many others.), can improve its firmware, and even optimize efficiency. Considering the truth that Phison often supervises manufacturing of SSDs based mostly on its controllers and basically sells SSDs, not controller chips, the truth that GALAX now provides software program for personalization of its PS5012-E12-powered drives signifies that the corporate has completed some extra R&D work and its merchandise supply greater than typical Phison-based SSDs do.
At current, the GALAX HOF SSDs can be found primarily in China. It stays to be seen whether or not Palit decides to supply them in different international locations and which logos they may carry.
Source: GALAX, GALAX (through Momomo_US/Twitter)
