Galax started selling HOF Extreme 50 solid state drives, which were introduced back in December last year. New items use the PCIe 5.0 interface and come in two versions – 1 and 2 TB.
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The HOF Extreme 50 SSD is based on the Phison E26 controller, 232-layer Micron Flash memory chips and a DDR4 RAM buffer. The 1TB model has a buffer capacity of 2GB, the 2TB version has twice as much.
The manufacturer specifies sequential read and write speeds of up to 9500 and 8500 MB/s for the 1 TB SSD model. The drive’s random read and write performance is reported as 1.3 million and 1.1 million IOPS, respectively. The 2 TB model has sequential read and write speeds of 10,000 and 9,500 MB/s respectively. Random read and write performance is 1.5 million and 1.25 million IOPS, respectively.
Both drives feature active cooling systems consisting of a tall aluminum heatsink and a tangential fan, popularly referred to as a “turbine”. According to the manufacturer, the cooling system keeps the temperature of the SSD in the range of 40-45 degrees Celsius under load.
The 2 TB model comes with a five-year manufacturer’s warranty. In China, the 2TB HOF Extreme 50 is available for 2499 yuan (about US$363), and in the US it will go on sale for US$350.
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