14 DAY TRIAL // In the midst of various April Fools jokes, it seems that G.Skill wants to preserve the semblance of normality necessary for one's sanity, so it came out and released a new member for its Phoenix series of SSDs.
As NAND Flash memory moves to more advanced manufacturing processors, it becomes more energy efficient, denser and, quite importantly, cheaper to make (although not by enough to rival HDDs on their own field).
This, in turn, contributes to a greater interest and allows storage devices based on them to move closer to the mainstream.
Granted, G.Skill did not primarily do its best to strike affordability when it made the latest addition to the Phoenix EVO series.
Instead, the main focus was on performance and starting the serious move from 3xnm chips to 2xnm ones, in this case 25nm (most likely).
That said, the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface is used, meaning that G.Skill didn't adopt any of the latest controller chips from SandForce.
That doesn't, however, mean it didn't optimize speed to the best of its ability anyway. Basically, it chose the previous-generation SandForce SF-1222 controller.
As such, the newcomer (whose storage space is of 115 GB) has read and write speeds of 280 MB/s and 270 MB/s, respectively.
Needless to say, like most of its peers, the Phoenix EVO boasts the 2.5-inch form factor.
“The performance benchmark of G.Skill Phoenix EVO is listed on G.Skill official website. With the information transparency, consumers can easily choose the right product according to their desire and budget” said Wales Tsai, the G.Skill SSD product manager.
Finally, the newcomer has a MTBF of 1 million hours and should start selling soon, although no pricing details were given.
What remains is to just how long it takes for the IT player to accelerate process transition and unleash more of these Phoenix members.