Nextorage NEM-PA Series PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD Culminating at 2TB

Nextorage Corporation will launch a PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 (PCIe 4.0) M.2 2280 NVMe SSD NEM-PA series for the USA market from March.

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The products are initially sold on Amazon.

Nextorage was established on October 1, 2019 as a company specializing in the memory storage solutions business led by engineers and staff who built on 20 years of history in memory storage at Sony.

Overview
The NEM-PA series is an M.2 2280 SSD equipped with a PCIe 4.0 / NVMe 1.4 controller and a 3D TLC NAND, and comes with a heatsink for heat dissipation. The drive achieves sequential read up to 7,300 MB/s ⁽¹⁾, sequential write up to 6,900 MB/s ⁽¹⁾, and random R/W up to 1,000,000 IO/s ⁽¹⁾ (in a PC environment).

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Highlights:

• Expand users’ PlayStation 5 storage
  Compatible with PS5 , confirmed by Nextorage, the NEM-PA series fits into the expansion slot of the PS5 console or PS5 Digital Edition console. Increasing the storage capacity of PS5 allows users to download, copy, and start PS5 and PS4 games from the M.2 SSD storage. It realizes performance of over 6,500MB/s read with the PS5 console. Compatibility was tested in PS5 (version: 21.02-04.00.00). This is not a product developed under the licence program of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Compatibility and performance are not guaranteed for all game titles.

• Fast PCIe Gen 4.0 x4
  The combination of an 8-channel controller and a 1,200MT/s 3D TLC NAND uses the PCIe 4.0 data bandwidth (approx. 8GB/s), and rates sequential read up to 7,300MB/s ⁽¹⁾, sequential write up to 6,900MB/s ⁽¹⁾, and random access performance up to 1,000,000 IO/s ⁽¹⁾ read and write (in a PC environment). It provides powerful operability even for game titles that require high responsiveness. 

• Optimized cooling structure
  Performance and stability last thanks to the optimized heat dissipation design – the NEM-PA series comes with an aluminum heatsink coated with thermally radioactive black alumite, which suppresses thermal throttling (speed limit activation to prevent thermal runaway). The heatsink cannot be disassembled. When users mount this product on a desktop computer, make sure there is enough space for the M.2 SSD to be installed. This drive cannot be used for laptop computers.

• Large-capacity dynamic SLC cache and DDR4 DRAM
  Dynamic SLC caching stores cache size up to 1/3 of the total storage area of SSD, which accelerates frequently accessed data and extends the life of TLC NAND. DDR4 DRAM with up to 2GB ⁽²⁾ capacity achieves both fast and stable transfers.

• Error correction algorithm (LDPC)
  The SSD controller has a precision error correction algorithm 4th Gen LDPC (Low Density Parity Check), which has detection and correction technology for random bit errors that occur during reading and protects the data from corruption.

• Reliability and testing
  In addition to functional tests, all the company’s SSDs are tested for write/read functions at high temperatures specified by the firm before shipment.

• 5-year limited warranty
  Warranty and product support valid for 5 years from the original date of purchase or before writing the maximum TBW (Total Bytes Written).

Resources:
NEM-PA series product information
Video: M.2 2280 SSDをPlayStation®5へ取り付ける手順 How to add an M.2 2280 SSD to a PS

⁽¹⁾ The maximum performances in the text represent the performance of NEM-PA2TB. Performance and power consumption may differ depending on the measurement conditions. Since the measured value also depends on factors other than the items described above, the indicated performance is not guaranteed. 

The measured value is based on the following conditions:

• Sequential speed

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-core processor motherboard: MSI MEG X570 ACE

  • OS: Windows 10 Professional 64bit

  • Measurement software: Atto Disk Benchmark Ver. 3, Total Length = 1 GB

• IO/s

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

  • Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER

  • OS: Windows 10 Professional 64bit

  • Measurement software: IOMeter, 1GB range, 4 K data size, QD=128, 16 worker, 4 K aligned

Please do not disassemble the heatsink. When users mount it on a desktop PC, make sure the system’s space for installation: the maximum dimensions of the NEM-PA are 24.5mm (W) x 8.10mm (H) x 80.15mm (L). It cannot be used for laptop computers.

⁽²⁾ The DDR4 DRAM cache sizes are NEM-PA2TB = 2 GB, and NEM-PA1TB = 1 GB.