Okay, that title is a really slight exaggeration. But take a look at this factor! The included heatsink on the Aorus Gen5 1000 SSD appears to be like prefer it may simply crush the poor M.2 drive beneath its huge tread, like a sumo wrestler attempting to journey a miniature pony. According to Gigabyte’s announcement, the big add-on is included individually within the packaging, permitting the consumer to put in the SSD with or with out the add-on. That’s useful, particularly because it merely gained’t match within the M.2 slot placement of many motherboards.

But when you’re shelling out for this drive, you need the heatsink, so as to hit its most rated pace of 10 gigabytes learn/write per second. That’s assuming, in fact, that you’ve a motherboard with a PCIe 5.0 slot able to using the newest NVMe storage. Gigabyte says that the pace breakthrough is 40 p.c sooner than the previous generation of the design (which additionally got here with a bombastic cooler) enabled by 200 layers of 3D NAND flash.

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That’s on the 2B model. The 1TB mannequin is rated barely decrease at “just” 9500/8500 MB/s according to Guru3D. Gigabyte isn’t saying whenever you’ll be capable to purchase the Aorus Gen5 1000, however presumably it’ll be someday within the upcoming months. Based on the value of different early PCIe Gen5-enabled drives, count on to pay someplace between “a lot” and “a whole lot.”