Blackfire Posted February 25, 2023 Posted February 25, 2023 Never heard of Nextorage? Join the club. It's an upstart brand but born of technological aristocracy. Born in 2019, Nextorage was created by Sony with a very specific remit, to create SSDs for the PlayStation series of games consoles. That original plan has already shifted dramatically. In 2022, Phison took a controlling stake in Nextorage. Phison, of course, is best known for its SSD controller chips as used by all manner of SSD brands from Sabrent to Corsair and Kingston to Seagate. Anyway, the net result is that Nextorage is now Phison's creature and this Nextorage NEM-PA 2TB SSD unsurprisingly runs the E18 controller, Phison's top-spec PCIe Gen 4 chip. It's the very same chip we've seen in numerous high-performance Gen 4 SSDs, including the PNY XLR8 CS3140(opens in new tab), Seagate Firecuda 530(opens in new tab), Corsair MP600 Pro XT, Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus(opens in new tab) and many more. Indeed, this is a well specified drive all round. Along with the Phison E18 chip running over a quad-lane PCIe 4.0 interface, there's 2TB of quality TLC NAND memory and 2GB of DDR4 cache. All told, the hardware makes for very competitive looking claimed performance that's very much in line with other Phison E18-powered drives.
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