Samsung will now be the first to introduce an SSD that uses the PCIe 5 interface. The new disk called PM1743 is designed for use in servers, but Intel shows it with an adapter for an Alder Lake system and reaches 13.8 GB / s.
Intel Alder Lake became the first with PCIe 5 for consumers. The new technology was launched together with DDR5 on the new platform, but while there are a few DDR5 memories, there is a shortage of PCIe 5 products. Samsung PM1743 may be the first. While not a consumer product, it does not stop Intel from showing what it’s capable of in an Intel Alder Lake system with a 12900K. Intel’s Chief Performance Strategist, Ryan Shrout, shows the disk in a short video on Twitter. In the video, he first runs a short benchmarking test on a WD SN850 that reaches just under 7 GB / s, as it is also used as a system disk. Samsung PM1743 is then connected with an adapter. When the test starts, it reaches 13.8 GB / s in the few seconds it is running.
Perks of the job! Was going to save this demo for #CES2022 but with that off the table, why not just share it with everyone right now?! Here’s a 12th Gen @intel Core i9-12900K system paired with a new @Samsung PM1743 PCIe 5.0 SSD getting over 13GB/s!! pic.twitter.com/oyL08KzDtV
— Ryan Shrout (@ryanshrout) December 30, 2021
PM1743 is, as I said, a disk for server use. It is available in models with up to 16 TB of space and comes with a Samsung-developed controller. It’s impressive to see a controller that can handle the incredibly high speeds. However, we suspect that it consumes large amounts of energy, although Samsung boasts of a 30 percent improvement in power consumption on its website.
Ryan Shrout concludes the video by saying that the type of performance shown in the video is similar to what we can see from PCIe 5 SSDs being launched “later this year”. We do not know exactly what Shrout is talking about, but it sounds really optimistic that we would reach such speeds in units for consumers in 2022, at least in the m.2 format that has now become standard for the industry. It remains to be seen what the industry has planned for the interface during the year.
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