XPG Gammix S70 2TB

$459 | www.xpg.com Just when you were beginning to think that Phison had a complete stranglehold on the third-party SSD controller market, here comes the XPG Gammix S70 to blow that notion away. Lift this M.2 drive’s beefy alloy lid and you’ll find none other than an InnoGrit IG5236 chip, which is somewhat intriguing. So, what can we tell you about the InnoGrit IG5236? It’s a multi-core controller with NVMe 1.4 support, eight memory channels, and a quad-lane PCIe 4.0 interface. Like the Phison E18, it’s built on TSMC’s 12nm FinFET process, which bodes well for things like clockspeeds, thermals, and efficiency. Of course, merely being novel isn’t going to cut it. Nor is multiple gigabytes of bandwidth in each direction. The SSD market is thick with PCIe Gen 4…

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