Goodram (Wilk Elektronik): PX400 PCIe Gen 3 x2 M.2 Up to 1TB SSD With 3D NAND

Wilk Elektronik SA, a Polish manufacturer of storage products and owner of the Goodram and IRDM brands, introduces PCIe lineup for cost-sensitive applications.

The company introduces PX product line, which includes PCIe-based SSD, targeting price parity with SATA drives. This expands its consumer SSD portfolio beyond SATA III products, by launching PX400 based on the PCIe 3.0 x2 interface.

PX400 is a PCIe Gen 3 x2 M.2 SSD launched by the brand. Based on 3D NAND and Phison Electronics Corp.‘s E8 controller, this SSD reaches transfer speeds of up to 1,700MB/s for read and 1,050MB/s while achieving up to 200,000 read IO/s and 190,000 write IO/s.

A challenge with designing M.2 SSD is how to limit the thermal throttling that reduces the performance of SSD. To solve this issue both NAND flash and controller were covered with thin-film made out of copper and graphite. This solution provides heat dissipation but also enables this drive to be mounted in ultrabooks and other devices with space constraints.

”Despite many new M.2 products for the last couple years, market lacked solutions which would help to bring a balanced product to the market,” says WiesBaw Wilk, CEO, Wilk Elektronik. ”On one hand we had SATA M.2 with huge performance bottleneck and AHCI interface, on the other super fast PCIe Gen 3 x4 which lacked price competitiveness. PX400 is a great compromise by delivering the low NVMe latency, 3x performance upgrade over 6Gb SATA with similar price to average consumer 2.5-inch SSD.”

The PX400 is available in three capacities: 256, 512GB and 1TB. In all cases it is based on single-sided 2280 M.2 form factor. It is covered under 3-year manufacturer warranty with free technical support.

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