PNY is revamping its line-up of SSDs with the brand new CS3150 PCIe Gen5 M.2 NVMe drives, obtainable with as much as 2TB of storage and with speeds of as much as 12,000MB/s.
The CS3150 leverages an NVMe PCIe Gen5 x4 interface to ship learn/write speeds of as much as 12,000MB/s and 11,000MB/s respectively, placing it amongst the quickest PCIe 5.0 drives obtainable.
Running at these speeds will increase thermals, so to maintain issues operating cool, PNY ships these SSDs with an built-in heatsink, obtainable in black, white or black with RGB LEDs should you desire. Suppose you personal a number of PNY RGB merchandise, just like the CS3150, XLR8 reminiscence or an XLR8 graphics card. In that case, you may synchronise and management the RGB lighting via the VelocityX software program, which additionally doubles as a graphics card overclocking device.
These SSDs can take full benefit of Microsoft’s DirectStorage expertise, enabling even quicker loading instances in supported video games. Even with out that although, the pace improve of PCIe 5 will result in snappy loading instances regardless. For added safety, these SSDs use TCG Opal 2.0 {hardware} encryption.
The 1TB CS3150 with built-in heatsink shall be obtainable in December, priced at $179.99. The RGB model shall be obtainable for $189.99.
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