Goodram (Wilk Elektronik) From Poland: PCIe 3.0 x2 PX400 M.2 SSD

Wilk Elektronik SA, Polish manufacturer of storage products and owner of GOODRAM and IRDM brands, expands its consumer SSD portfolio beyond 6Gb SATA products, by launching PX400 based on the PCIe 3.0 x2 interface.

GOODRAM PX400 is the first PCIe Gen 3 x2 M.2 SSD launched by the brand. Based on 3D NAND and Phison E8 controller, this SSD reaches transfer speeds of up to 1,700MB/s for read and 1,050MB/s while achieving up to 200,000 read IOPS and 190,000 write IO/s.

One of the challenges with designing M.2 SSD is how to limit the thermal throttling that reduces the performance of SSD. To solve this issue both NAND flash and controller were covered with thin film made out of copper and graphite. This solution provides heat dissipation and also enables this drive to be mounted in ultrabooks and other devices with space constraints.

“Despite many new M.2 products for the last couple years, market lacked solutions which would help to bring a balanced product to the market,” says Wieslaw Wilk, CEO, Wilk Elektronik. “On one hand we had SATA M.2 with huge performance bottleneck and AHCI interface, on the other – super fast PCIe Gen 3 x4 which lacked price competitiveness. PX400 is a great compromise by delivering the low NVMe latency, 3x performance upgrade over 6Gb SATA with similar price to average consumer 2.5″ SSD.”

PX400 is available in three capacities: 256GB, 512GB and 1TB.

In all cases it is based on single-sided 2280 M.2 form factor.

Like other firm’s consumer drives, PX400 is covered under 3-year manufacturer warranty with free technical support.