Although SSD solid-state hard disk drives have continued to heat up in recent years, the major motherboard manufacturers such as Asustek, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI have not shown any action at all, and they seem to have little interest in this market. Until now, Gigabyte finally released their first SSD product, named 'UD PRO' series - UD should come from Gigabyte's Ultra Duarable ultra durable series.
As a first attempt, the GIGABYTE UD PRO series is a standard 2.5-inch SATA hard drive that uses a turnkey master version of Toshiba's flash memory and a Toshiba flash memory. The master is Grouplink PS3110 S10, Quad-Core, Supports 8-Channel Flash, 32 CE, With Toshiba BiCS3 3D TLC flash memory, capacity 256GB, 512GB.
Unpredictable performance, continuous maximum reading and writing 530MB/s, 500MB/s Random reading and writing 7-8 million IOPS, 4-7.5 million IOPS , Support SLC buffer acceleration, and comes with DDR3L cache, does not support encryption technology.
The maximum write volume is only 100TBW, 200TBW, which is one-third lower than that of similar products. It should not support BHH ECC and limited redundancy space. At the same time, the average time between failures is 1.8 million hours, which is still not high enough. The warranty is only For 3 years.
Listed next week, prices are $68.99, $119.99 , about RMB 435 yuan, 760 yuan, it's OK, but the price is not so prominent.
Afterwards, Gigabyte will also introduce NVMe M.2, a PCI-E-style SSD, and will be crowned with the AORUS brand. Specifications and performance will naturally come.
