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Phison Details U21 USB4 PSSD and E31T Mainstream Gen 5 SSD Controllers


by Ganesh T S & Gavin Bonshor on January 9, 2024 6:30 PM EST - Posted in - Trade Shows - Storage - SSDs - Phison - Portable SSDs - PS5031-E31T - CES 2024 - U21 Phison's lineup of SSD and portable SSD controllers is keeping pace with the general industry trends, as evidenced by their products on display at the 2024 CES. Portable SSDs in all forms and sizes (including the popular thumb drive as a SSD-in-a-stick) have gained a lot of market and mind-share in recent years, thanks to rising capacity and performance.

Portable SSDs in all forms and sizes (including the popular thumb drive as a SSD-in-a-stick) have gained a lot of market and mind-share in recent years, thanks to rising capacity and performance. This might hold back the power- and energy- efficiency a bit, as we have seen higher flash speeds getting the job done faster and having lower overall energy consumption for a given workload. This quad-channel controller is fabricated in TSMC's 7nm process with peak performance numbers of around 10800 MBps for sequential workloads and 1.5M IOPS for 4K random accesses.

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