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Digital ldpc that might not sound like much but it's one of the features that
is going to set apart the SX 930 SSD and
any other SSD product that is based on the upcoming San Force third generation
so this is the 3700 series controller so
what ldpc refers to is an enhanced error
correction algorithm that goes along with the enhanced encryption as well as
enhanced performance and enhanced features basically it's better in every
possible way they have a working sample here in the suite but other than that we
don't know too much about it they are quoting that it's capable of up to 1,800
megabytes per second of sustained performance with incompressible data
something we're not really used to seeing with a sand Force controller and
we also know that it natively supports both sata3 interfaces as well as PCI
Express interfaces giving you the flexibility to deploy it as a PCIe
add-in card or even in an M2 or ngff
type of form factor which can go directly on a motherboard or in a small
form factor notebook now this one right here is a 2 terabyte model so we could
also be looking at some increased capacity availability as well but what
we also know for certain is they're not showing any performance numbers yet and
we could be looking at a few more months before you can actually buy one of these
babies not all futuristic SSD technology
is all about highest per the highest performance possible this is the XU 41
which is a full SSD built into a single
package here so it could be soldered into something like uh a tablet for
example it's not necessarily the highest performance in the world capable of
about 20,000 random iops but you get
capacities up to 128 gigs and significantly better performance than
you would be able to if you weren't using a proper SSD controller in spite
of its extremely small form factor next up we have ah yes working ddr4 samples
no motherboard to put them in so yeah
but there they are we have both and 8 gig and a 16 gig module to show you guys
this one right here has 288 pins it runs at ddr4 2133 which isn't that impressive
for now we're expecting to see better by the time it actually launches and that's
at cl15 so the timings are quite loose but there you have it guys it is working
apparently but of course we can't show it working because motherboards I've
been saying for quite some time that one of the ways that I personally shop for
PC components as long as I'm buying from a trusted brand that has good warranty
support and all that stuff is uh color
so ad data has attached to that idea
pretty strongly here and they have updated the xpg V2 memory module kit
lineup to now contain many different colors including some ones that I'm
particularly excited about such as their matte black and matte white spreaders
but they also have some pretty outlandish stuff as well so you can
match up to your build pretty much no matter what your build happens to look
like so we've got a pretty sweet uh purple anodized inwind system and this
is actually the one that is running the live demo of the X SX 930 SSD featuring
that San Force 3700 series controller I
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