"We’ve got a first look at the performance of the new Phison E28 controller, based around a 2TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD with KIOXIA BiCS8 218-layer TLC 3D NAND Flash. In this preview today, we’ll test the Phison E28 controller-based SSD and see what kind of...

"The Phison E28 is destined to come to the market for all capacities between 1TB and 8TB. Smaller capacities – even 1TB – don’t make sense at this level of performance, given how dense NAND flash is getting. 2TB probably remains the sweet spot with some creep into...

"A while ago, we brought a preview of the rather fantastic flagship Phison PS5026E-26 M.2 SSD. However, what’s unique is that you can’t actually buy that SSD. You see, Phison don’t actually make consumer drives, they make controllers. What they create are...

"The E28 is of a 6nm Gen5 SSD controller that speaks to low 6 watt sequential power draw which bumps just a bit below 7.5 watts for random sustained read and drops to about 5.5w for random sustained write.  Phison believes that the E28 has the lowest idle power...

"Oh right, MSI also sells SSDs! And the latest models (like the Spatium M571 PCIe 5.0 M.2) are built with Phison’s E28 controller and TSMC’s 6nm process. This offers reduced power use and, as a result, runs cooler, which is especially handy for laptops and handheld...