New Maxio MAP1000 PCIe SSD Controllers Are under Development

New Maxio MAP1000 PCIe SSD Controllers

Maxio Technology primarily designed controllers for inexpensive SATA SSDs. However, it is now expanding its business into the field of higher-performance drives aiming as a PCIe interface.

At Computex Taipei 2019, many enterprises, such as TeamGroup, Essencore, and more, had showcased their new controllers for SSDs. Maxio was not an exception. It demonstrated its MAP1000 lineup of PCIe SSD controllers aimed at cheaper and higher-end solutions.

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PCIe SSD controllers from Maxio include these three chips: MAP1001 with 8 NAND channels for advanced drives, MAP1003 with 4 NAND channels for mainstream SSDs, and MAP1002 with 4 NAND channels for the cheapest DRAM-less solutions.

The compatibility is one thing that the company concerns about. For example, this Maxio MAP1000-series controllers can work with various types of 3D MLC/3D TLC/3D QLC memory which are designed and produced by different manufacturers and feature a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface.

Performance

When referring to an SSD, you must want to know its performance. Here, the company points out that the SSDs powered by the MAP1001 will have excellent performance as follows:

• The sequential read speed can reach up to 3.5GB/s;
• The sequential write speed can reach up to 3GB/s;
• The read IOPS can reach up to 800K;
• The read IOPS can reach up to 600K when it is used with 3D NAND ICs featuring a 800 MT/s interface.

The data transfer speed of the SSD which is using other controller is not as fast as the one using the MAP1001 controller. In theory, the sequential read speed can reach up to 2.4GB/s. You can see that it will still exceed the SATA drive by an obvious margin.

As to the feature side of one thing, the controllers of MAP1000-series are featuring Maxio’s AgileECC 2 technology, which can be considered as the second generation implementation of the LDPC-based technology; embedded RAID capabilities; end-to-end data protection; AES-256, TCG-OPAL 2.0, as well as China-specific SM2, SM3, and SM4 encoding; advanced power management, and so forth.

All of these controllers are made using a 28nm process technology. Due to this, the chips are not too expensive for the manufacture. From the following picture, you can see that this chip is very small.

Maxio MAP1000 PCIe SSD controllers are new products now. The company said that it will test the MAP1001 and MAP1002 controllers in the third quarter this year. Then, some of them will be used on the commercial SSDs and released for public on its base sometimes late this year or the early time next year.

The technology of PCIe interface is under fast development. In the near future, more and more people would like to choose to use PCIe SSDs. For you, if you want to replace your computer hard drive by this new SSD, you can choose to use a professional partition manager – MiniTool Partition Wizard – to migrate OS to the new SSD directly.

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Hope these new SSD will bring you convenience one day.