INTRODUCTION

   Just like with most things in the electronics market solid state drives (SSDs) have come a long way since the late 2000's not just in terms of read & write speeds but also endurance and even supported technologies. Another thing which has as expected improved over the years has been cost so today consumers can get their hands on 4TB Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs for roughly the same amount as 32GB SATA SSDs when they were first introduced almost 17 years ago. DRAM-less Gen4 SSDs further optimize cost by slightly sacrificing performance and the SSD FX700 model by HP released late last month is yet another such model.

   HP SSD continues to make progress in storage technology. It can provide customers with the latest high-performance storage solutions in both the server and consumer market. Compared with traditional hard disk drives, HP SSD can improve the operation performance of your entire system, including superior read-write speed, improved startup time, faster application-load, longer battery life, and better earthquake-resistant performance. As a leading brand in the PC industry, HP SSD quality assurance is implemented from the R&D design stage to the whole process of production and sales, and is feed back to the R&D design. Let quality design be in every product is HP's quality management principle. HP SSD supports DST self-test of HP computers to ensure the product reliability in use. HP has a perfect after-sales system and many service outlets globally. HP will solve any questions carefully about products. We also provide a free customer support hotline and you can also find more details on our HP website.

   The SSD FX700 line of PCIe 4.0 Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs is currently available in 512GB/1/2/4TB capacities and is the 5th model to arrive in the lab featuring MaXio's DRAM-less MAP1602 12nm quad-channel (R5) NAND flash controller which this time is paired with YMTC's very first 232-layer 3D QLC NAND flash. Again, the MAP1602 12nm quad-channel NAND controller by MaXio packs quite a few technologies including advanced wear leveling algorithms, Host Memory Buffer (HMB) architecture (uses a fraction of your PC's system memory to cache mapping tables), pseudo SLC cache, bad block management strategy, hardware error-correction, L1.2 ultra-low power state and sudden power-loss protection, TRIM, NCQ, hardware support for AES256/SM4 encryption and support for TCG OPAL2.0. Last but not least the entire SSD FX700 line is covered with a 5-year limited warranty, has a reported MTBF of 2 million hours for all variants and a TBW (terabytes written) of 200 for the 512GB model, 400TB for the 1TB model, 800 for the 2TB model and 1600 for the 4TB model.