A-Data XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE AGAMMIXS70B-2T-CS 2 TB

Run leader

The ADATA XPG Gammix S70 Blade is the fastest SSD to date and is likely to remain so until the release of the fifth generation of the PCI-E bus. It develops maximum speed in the case of the 2 TB version, while the one-terabyte reads just as fast, but writes a little slower.

A fresh look

Built on the controller of the young company InnoGrit — IG5236, codenamed Reinier (besides it, the InnoGrit assortment has only one simpler controller — IG5216 with PCI-E 3.0). Despite the inexperience, InnoGrit managed to make the PCI-E 4.0 controller faster than the recognized market veterans Phison and Silicon Motion.

overheat protection

So, the S70 Blade sequential read speed reaches 7400 MB / s, and sequential write — 6400 MB / s. The volume of the virtual SLC cache is 10 percent of the volume of the disk, and after it is full, the write speed drops to about 2000 MB / s. Theoretically, the speed can drop even lower — up to 1000 MB / s — due to overheating of the controller.

Metallurgy Achievement

But in fact, this will definitely not happen, because the XPG Gammix S70 Blade is equipped with a heatsink made of perhaps the best heat-conducting alloy — graphene. Moreover, unlike the original modification of the S70, the updated Blade heatsink is made thin so that you can install an SSD even in the M.2 slot located under the graphics card.