Zotac has announced its first NVMe PCIe SSD that will be available in 480GB capacity and offer sequential transfer speed of up to 2,600MB/s, the Zotac Sonix 480GB PCIe SSD.
Based on Phison E7 controller, yet to be detailed Toshiba MLC NAND and 512MB DDR3 of cache, the Zotac Sonix is the first consumer-aimed NVMe 1.2 PCIe SSD from Zotac and will offer sequential performance of up to 2,600MB/s for read and up to 1,300MB/s for write, significantly outperforming SATA-based 2.5-inch SSDs.
According to Zotac, the new Sonix PCIe 480GB SSD is aimed at wider array of applications including large databases, resource-heavy applications, multitasking, multimedia applications as well as gaming.
The new Zotac Sonix 480GB PCIe SSD will also feature End-to-end Data Path Protection and Dynamic Wear Leveling as well as have an MTBF of up to 2,000,000 hours.
Unfortunately, Zotac did not announce any details regarding the precise availability date or the price.
Source:
Zotac.com.