G.Skill has unveiled its newest SSD, the Phoenix Blade Series PCIe 480GB SSD based on LSI's SF-2281 SSD controllers and 480GB of MLC NAND flash on a PCI-Express card.


According to G.Skill, the new Phoenix Blade Series 480GB PCIe SSD is the perfect storage solution for gaming, professional graphic design, industrial design, and HD video & audio content creation as well as brings extreme read and write performance.




As noted, the G.Skill Phoenix Blade Series 480GB PCIe SSD is based on four LSI SF-2281 SSD controllers in RAID0 mode paired up with 480GB of MLC NAND flash which allows it to offer the bandwidth performance of up to four times over typical SATA3 based SDDs, or precisely, up to 2000MB/s of sequential read and write performance and up to 245K IOPS 4KB random write performance.




The G.Skill Phoenix Blade Series 480GB PCIe SSD uses PCIe Gen 2.0 x8 interface and is built on a standard PCIe card form factor. It also has both TRIM and S.M.A.R.T. support as well as enhanced data protection with CRC data protection and BCH ECC 55 bits per sector and RAID-5-like protection.

Unfortunately, G.Skill did not reveal any details regarding the price or the actual availability date of the new Phoenix Blade Series PCIe 480GB SSD but did note that it is backed by a 3-year warranty.



Source: GSkill.com.