INTRODUCTION

   With the very first PCIe Gen5 M.2 NVMe SSDs finally in the market (and a few even in the lab currently) professionals, enthusiasts and even demanding gamers have something to look forward in the coming months, at least in the storage segment of the PC market. Still the fact that just a handful of motherboard models currently support Gen5 SSDs means that Gen4 models will not be going anywhere, not anytime soon and with quite a few of them featuring performance numbers that even surpass 7000MB/s the vast majority of users is clearly already covered. According to Netac their PCIe 4.0 Gen4 NV7000 series of M.2 NVMe SSDs is among those models and today with me i have the 2TB variant.

   Started in May 1999, Netac Technology (Stock Code at Shenzhen Exchange: 300042) is a leading flash memory manufacturer based in Shenzhen. Through more than ten years' growth, Netac was successfully listed in Growth Enterprise Market in January 2010, becoming the first listed removable storage supplier in China. Netac is the trademark used for our USB flash memory products. As the inventor of flash memory and a leading new-generation storage product manufacturer, Netac possesses the first generation of USB-based flash memory technology in the world. We focus on manufacturing of flash memory products, such as USB flash storage, portable hard drive and solid state disk, especially on security and encryption of USB flash storage and portable hard drive. We have a wholly-owned production base for processing of all flash storage products. At present, Netac Technology (Hong Kong) Limited and Leapro Technology Co., Ltd. are two fully subsidiary companies of Netac Technology Co., Ltd. Leapro Technology Co., Ltd is the holder of the SD-3C license.

   The NV7000 line of PCIe 4.0 Gen 4x4 M.2 NVMe v1.4 SSDs by Netac is currently available in 3 capacities (1/2/4TB) and is based on the Rainier IG5236 eight-channel NAND flash controller by Innogrit. The 2TB capacity model which i have here with me also features 2GB DDR4L DRAM by SK Hynix and 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash by Micron. In terms of technologies the Innogrit Rainier IG5236 controller is fully packed with end-to-end data protection, LDPC (low-density parity check) error-correction with SRAM ECC, programmable RAID, smart cache, AES encryption and fully supports SHA, RSA, ONFI 4.1 and Toggle 4.0. Netac covers the entire NV7000 line with a 5-year limited warranty and reports a MTBF (mean time between failures) of 2 million hours for all 3 models and a TBW of 700 for the 1TB model (640 in the datasheet), 1400 for the 2TB model (1280 in the datasheet) and 3000 for the 4TB model. Let's see how the brand new NV7000 2TB Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSD by Netac does.