Huawei has released its first consumer-centric Gen4 SSDs for the Chinese domestic market, offering up to 7400 MB/s speeds.
Huawei Rolls Its First Attempt At Consumer Gen4 SSDs, eKitStor Xtreme 200 With Up To 7.4 GB/s Speeds & 4 TB Capacities
The Chinese tech giant, Huawei, has decided to reenter the SSD market through its latest offering, the Kunling SSD eKitStor Xtreme 200 SSD. For those unaware, this isn't Huawei's first venture in the storage markets, but the Xtreme 200 is indeed the firm's first consumer SSD product, and they are looking to switch from the client side of things.
In terms of overall specifications, well, the regulation-struck company hasn't managed to bring cutting-edge components onboard, but they still have integrated decent components and features, which we'll discuss next.
The Huawei eKitStor Xtreme 200 SSD features a Gen4 interface, which is considered last-gen since Gen5 has taken the market by storm but is still a decent option for modern-day markets. The SSD complies with NVMe 2.0 protocol specifications, and in terms of read and write speeds, it comes with 7,400 MB/s and 6,700 MB/s, respectively. It also features random read-and-write IOPS of up to 1.1 million as well. Being based on older technology, the SSD doesn't feature a DRAM onboard but comes with the HMB (Host Memory Buffer) technology, which is sort of a compensation for being DRAM-less.
In terms of capacities, the Huawei eKitStor Xtreme 200 SSD comes in 512 GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, with the base configuration priced at 608.4 yuan or $83 and goes up to 3793.4 yuan or $522. Huawei hasn't disclosed information about the technology employed in their new consumer SSDs, but it should be based on an in-house Gen4 controller.
The big question is what prompted Huawei to enter the consumer SSD segment, and the viable answer is that either the firm has achieved a breakthrough (maybe a self-built SSD controller?) or the company wants its laptops to feature its tech, being self-reliant. It will be interesting to see what sort of consumer response we see with the new release and how the eKitStor Xtreme 200 stacks up against competitors.
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