AORUS SSD – NVMe Gen4 SSD Review
Conclusion
At present the AORUS SSD is in the same ball park as other high speed Gen4 offerings. After all, they have similar configurations. I suspect what is responsible for this drive’s performance advantage over the Force MP600 is firmware tuning. GIGABYTE is able to extract a little but more performance and reliably so out of this configuration. This has allowed the AORUS SSD to be consistently faster than it’s immediate rival the Force MP600, even if it’s by a hair.
In terms of the package, well there isn’t one really. It’s simply a high speed drive with an all copper heat sink. This can be easily removed should you so choose and that is one up it has over other drives. Aesthetically, this copper look may not work for everyone, so it’s a good thing it can be dismantled in favor of the many M.2 heat sinks we find on modern motherboards.
Regarding pricing, this drive costs a little more than the Force MP600, in fact it’s at that drive’s launch price, from which it has subsequently dropped. What the AORUS SSD is offering is an all copper, removable heat sink, epic throughput and what could I suppose be considered an aggressive price. Mix that in with a 5-year/1,8PBW warranty and you have a pretty solid offering. Any other time the AORUS SSD would deserve the value award, but that it extracts little bit more from it’s BOM than the Force MP600, compels me to hand it our Hardware Award.
