Hardware manufacturer MSI this week announced two new PCIe 5.0 SSDs, the Spatium M570 Pro and Spatium M570, which are the first PCIe 5.0 drives that can be purchased as finished products. These SSDs use Phison’s E26 controller and are available in 1, 2, and 4 TB capacities with or without heatsinks.

The features of the M570 Pro and M570 drives

The Spatium M570 Pro uses Micron’s new 232-layer NAND flash memory, allowing it to achieve sequential read and write speeds of 12,000 and 10,000 MB/s respectively. The non-professional Spatium M570, on the other hand, uses slower TLC memory that only allows it to reach 10,000 MB/s reads.

Performance and availability

During MSI’s CES show, we were able to see preliminary benchmark results for the Spatium M570 Pro, which showed that this drive significantly outperforms today’s best SSDs, such as the Samsung 990 Pro, which has a 7,450 MB/s read and 6,900 MB/s write. MSI will launch both drives in the second quarter of this year at undisclosed prices, and the M570 Pro will also be available as an option on the Raider GE78 HX and Titan GT77 HX laptops.

SOURCES : videocardz.com, tomshardware.com