Are Gen5 SSDs Worth Buying? - Aorus 10000 Review

this right here is the gigabyte auras 10 000. it is the first gen 5 SSD to hit the market and as the name suggests it should also be the first SSD to come close to that 10 000 megabytes per second barrier which is about uh 50 faster than what current gen 4 ssds can do but as some of you remember when first gen 4 ssds came out they sounded pretty amazing on paper but the first generation of drives wasn't that good at all and it took quite a while till we got proper high-performing drive that we love and use today so I am very curious to see how this very first gen 5 Drive will perform especially when it comes to some real world tests and if it will manage to leave the good old Gen 4 into dust let's begin technically speaking the aorus 10000 seems very impressive it uses Faison's New e26 Gen 5 SSD controller which will probably be the standard controller you will find in pretty much every other Gen 5 SSD that will come out in the next few months it use is micron's latest 232 layer 3D TLC nand and of course they added dram cache as well the one terabyte model gets 2 gigabytes of dram cache which is twice as much as you would usually find on a high-end Gen 4 drive and the two terabyte model comes with a four gigabyte cache there is no information about any four terabyte drives just yet but I really do hope they will come out eventually other than that the specs are pretty basic they have a sequential read and write performance claim and you get a five year long warranty with total bytes written of 700 terabytes for the one terabyte model and 1400 terabytes for this two terabyte model which is again above average now realistically you'll more likely to run out of that five year long warranty way before you ride 1400 terabytes to a single Drive Now power consumption is quite interesting as well the specs claim it uses less than 10 watts under load which is about double of what most Gen 4 drives will pull but not so much that you would need some obnoxious cooling solutions with active fans nevertheless gigabyte did bundle this drive with a massive heatsink and you might think it is because it will get massively hot but that is not the case they just reuse their most high-end Gen 4 SSD heatsink that still has a little Gen 4 sticker on the side of it but don't worry retail models will say Gen 5 this is just an early review sample do keep in mind that this oversized heatsink might be too big for some motherboards it didn't fit on the Gen 5 slot of my Asus z790 hero board for example and if that happens you can just remove the heatsink and use the one that your motherboard comes with any Gen 5 slot has decent heatsinks nowadays so it shouldn't be a problem at all but let's talk performance and this time around I'm actually going to start with sequential read and write numbers now these numbers are not that relevant from a practice perspective but one of the points of Gen 5 ssds is to break through that 7000 megabytes per second barrier of the Gen 4 slot in sequential rights gigabyte averages at around 9750 megabytes per second with some peaks of over 10 000. so it is about 50 faster than anything last gen in sequential reads it was doing a bit over 9 100 megabytes per second which is about 36 faster than the top Gen 4 drives so the output is definitely a lot higher but since the theoretical limit of Gen 5 ssds is twice as high as Gen 4 we still have a lot of room to cover but let's look at some more realistic results starting with the PC Mark 10 quick test and this is a great Benchmark for anyone that wants to add a second SSD to their system it is pretty much a collection of different tests that replicate all those little light things we do with our PCS every single day which are not that heavy on the SSD so things like looking at photos opening documents and so on and gigabyte does great here with an average result of 900 megabytes per second it is over 20 faster than the extraordinary 990 Pro and about 50 to 80 faster than most 80 or Gen 4 drives the full PC Mark 10 Suite is a test that replicates a more intense more serious and more consistent use of your drive and I would say this is a very useful Benchmark to look at if you're looking for a new main drive or for anyone that needs to run some applications that can be heavy on the SSD like editing videos for example and again the auras does really well here with an average result of 909 megabytes per second that is 30 faster than the 990 Pro 42 faster than the sn850x and about 46 faster than the KC 3000 and if we look at the average latency as well it is once again a lot quicker than anything gen 4. now the PC Mark consistency test is now really interesting for most people out there but it is great to see how a drive behaves under an extreme multi-hour workload that just stresses it to its very limits and here the aorus 10000 gets beaten by the 990 Pro which just handles this extreme workload much better than other drives but it is also beaten by the mp600 pro lpx from corset now given how each of the components of this drive is pretty much top tier it does kind of feel like it maybe needs some firmware optimization to help it deal with these extreme scenarios so they should be able to improve this over time now gaming is another area where it also feels like aurus 10000 is not really reaching its full potential if we take a look at the 3dmark storage test for example which is a combination of benchmarks that include a lot of gaming related tasks auras is in the second place and while this is not a bad results per se it is not the clear wind that I expected to see based on the previous results the WD black sn850x does better overall and other high-end Gen 4 drives like the KC 3000 and the 990 Pro are really close to it if we just look at the gaming results that I think are most important which is loading times installation times and update times it ends up scoring 91 of the fastest drive I tested so far which is the sn850x but let's check out The Thermals now obviously any SSD that can transfer 10 gigabytes in a single second needs some form of cooling and the massive heatsink included does a great job at keeping the temperature down now with a tiny bit of airflow it kept the SSD under 50 degrees Celsius during the entire consistency test which is way cooler than it actually needs to be so you don't really need such a large heatsink at all as long as there is a little bit of airflow running by your drive it will be completely fine on the under a regular motherboard heatsink or even a reasonable third-party heatsink that you can get on Amazon but honestly I actually think it performs better than I expected it to considering it's a first gen 5 drive that is and because as I said at the start when Gen 4S these came out they were basically only faster than the Gen 3 drives in sequential performance while running way too hot and it took quite a while for John Force's these two really start making sense and this Gen 5 drive is already showing pretty big improvements in regular use cases and it's not that hard to keep it cool so this is a great start and very good news for Gen 5 integration in general but there's still some big things to think about and really consider before rushing to the store to buy this drive right now now the main thing is that it really feels like the firmware of this auras Drive isn't completely optimized just yet it definitely shows potential in some benchmarks but in others it barely showed any game gains at all and while I do expect it to perform even better in a few weeks or a few months I do think it is wiser to wait and see how that develops instead of buying something this early and then waiting for it to improve also other Gen 5 drives are coming out as well and waiting to see what the competition has to offer is always good as well and last but not the least not all systems support a Gen 5 SSE to begin with and many that do especially on the Intel side will reduce the bandwidth available for your GPU Now new am5 e-boards for AMD CPUs are the only ones that have that sort of completely but it is more than fair to say that it will be a while until Gen 5 ssds become more of a standard like gen 4S are today and the same can be said for pricing it is not 100 clear how much these drives will cost but the first listing I've seen for this two terabyte model was 340 dollars in the US that is more than the 990 Pro which is already heavily overpriced and about twice the price of a good high-end Gen 4 SSD in the Netherlands the MSRP is set to 419 Euros but the prices in the actual shops will end up being a bit lower still it is again more than twice the price of a nice Gen 4 alternative so unless you have some very specific use case that benefits from having that 10 gigabyte per second transfer speed or you really want to brag about being an early adopter it doesn't really make sense to spend twice as much for this SSD that being said I do think it is really exciting to see the first gen 5 drives show up and I really do think it is important to take these steps forward in terms of SSD technology and SSD performance but it is still quite early and I just don't think it makes sense for a lot of people or at least not just yet that is all I have for today uh before I go let's check out the sponsor of this video this video was brought to you by Corsair and their Elite LCD XD coolers these Premium All-In-One water coolers combine excellent performance with a fully customizable LCD screen that can showcase anything you have in mind with a low noise pump and the AF Elite fans they can easily keep up with the latest and hottest of processors out there while keeping your system quiet you can install them on a variety of sockets including the latest Intel and AMD ones and once the installation is complete you can use the IQ software to control the RGB effects or sync them with the rest of your Corsair gear check them out using the links in the 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Length: 10min 54sec (654 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 20 2023