GIGABYTE AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD, M.2

The first PCIe Gen5 SSD for the consumer market to hit our lab, is the GIGABYTE Aorus 10000 SSD. The drive features a 200-layer stack structure of 3D-TLC NAND, Phiuson E26 controller, and an integrated LPDDR4 cache design. The AORUS 10000 is intended for users with intense demands, such as content creators and gamers, ideally those who have motherboards that can leverage and cool Gen5 M.2 SSDs.

Es ist so weit: Mit der Gigabyte Aorus 10000 erreicht uns die erste SSD mit dem neuen PCIe5-Interface, die wir auf unserem neuen Testsystem auf Herz und Nieren testen dürfen. Die Erwartungshaltung ist dabei entsprechend groß, denn den vielen Ankündigungen in den letzten Monaten war bislang wenig handfestes gefolgt. Gigabyte benennt die neue Aorus-SSD daher auch passend kurz, denn die "10000" steht dabei für nicht weniger als die versprochene Transferrate von 10.000 Megabyte pro Sekunde!

For the price of RM 729 and RM 1599 for the 1TB and 2TB models, the price of the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD is just like what we can see back then when the AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD 2TB was first launched. It’s not cheap for sure but looking at the performance numbers, I’d say yes but only if you really need this kind of performance and you have the hardware that actually supports it. Normal users and gamers don’t really need sequential read and write performance at 10,000MB/s as it’s almost impossible for normal usage or even gaming to be able to even utilize half of that. Content creators that work on heavy rendering and need the fastest possible storage to speed up their work are the group of users that I think will benefit from what the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD can deliver.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that if you take a new technology and stretch it to its limits you'll have a product which easily sits at the top of all of our performance charts. The Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 10000 is one such product.