Asus is ready to launch a excessive efficiency SSD in keeping with a teaser the corporate posted on its Taiwanese Fb web page. The drive is but to formally launch, however with Asus set to carry its ‘Boundless’ ROG occasion on the seventeenth of Might, together with a scaled down Computex, we’ll absolutely be getting extra particulars about this drive quickly.
In accordance with the lone image, (by way of Tom’s {Hardware}) the ROG Strix SQ7 is a typical type issue 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD. It comes with an aluminium or maybe graphene cooling strip. That might go well with customers who plan to make use of it beneath a motherboard heatsink. There’s no indication if there can be a heatsink geared up model, although a PS5 suitable model is unquestionably possible.
An Asus ROG branded drive will not be sudden. Today it’s comparatively simple for a producer to launch a drive with off the shelf parts. Opponents together with MSI and Gigabyte have their very own Phison E18 drives that provide learn and write speeds of 7GB/s or extra. These compete very nicely with absolutely in home designed drives from Samsung and Western Digital.
The excessive efficiency SSD market is reasonably saturated. SSDs aren’t precisely commodity gadgets however lately there’s not quite a bit to decide on between them as soon as you progress past aesthetics and worth. Asus will profit from its well-known model identify nevertheless it gained’t have the ability to cost a lot of a worth premium if it’s to compete with established storage producers together with these talked about above, but additionally firms like Kingston and Seagate.
The transfer to supply SSDs signifies that Asus manufactures the whole lot a gamer wants for a whole system other than CPUs and reminiscence. Asus peripherals, displays, instances, and energy provides are all obtainable, together with Asus’s extra conventional motherboards and graphics playing cards.
Asus has some expertise with reminiscence, together with serving to G.Ability design the it’s double DIMM modules again in 2018. Is it solely a matter of time earlier than Asus develops its personal RAM? I can think about its in home overclockers having a variety of enjoyable pushing DDR5 speeds to nicely over 10000MHz.
The pictured SQ7 SSD has a 1TB capability. Which means it gained’t value all that a lot. There’s no phrase on availability, the discharge of different capacities or precise pricing, however we are able to anticipate to listen to extra on the Boundless occasion subsequent week.
In the event you do not need to watch for Asus’ SSDs, take a look at our Greatest Gaming SSD information. Quicker storage with higher capability is at all times welcome.
