The new era of PCIe 5.0 SSDs are completely unimaginable items of know-how, delivering learn and write speeds that had been inconceivable just some years in the past. They’re additionally actually, actually arduous to search out. While we had been anticipating a reasonably wholesome market at this level in 2023, to this point we’ve solely seen two fashions arrive, one from Gigabyte and one which’s exclusive to Micro Center. Thanks to Galax, you may add a 3rd choice to the record…however solely in China, for the second. And it’s an imposing one.

As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the Galax HOF (for “Hall of Fame”) Extreme 50 is now on sale in China for 2500 yuan, which is a little more than $350 in US {dollars}. That’s the 2TB 2280 drive, which the producer claims can learn at 10,000 megabytes per second, with write speeds only a tad decrease at 9500 MB/s. The 1TB mannequin has barely slower efficiency, at 9500/8500 MB/s, respectively.

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Both variations of the drive come geared up with an absolutely massive heatsink. It’s an energetic cooling mannequin with a built-in fan, even greater than the passive cooler noticed on the Gigabyte PCIe 5.0 drive. With a design that wraps across the whole PCB of the drive, a la a contemporary graphics card, you gained’t have the ability to match any parts above it on the motherboard, and it gained’t match into rear-facing slots, both. The energetic cooling fan additionally requires an ordinary 4-pin energy connection. Such is the sacrifice one should make for screaming pace, I suppose.

We don’t know precisely when the Galax HOF drive can be out there internationally, however inside the subsequent month or two looks like a secure wager. The shortage of those next-gen drives is especially irritating for PC builders, as the remainder of the storage and reminiscence market is in an enormous stoop, creating fantastic prices on RAM and 4th-gen SSDs.