“When it comes to PCI-Express 5.0 or Gen5 NVMe solid state drives a considerable amount of them over the past couple of years have been powered by Phison’s E26 controller. While this controller was quite good, like many other Gen5 solutions there were power concerns, which of course led to quite a lot of heat as well. This meant for many of the drives you needed an active cooling solution. Phison has worked on many of these concerns and they are now releasing their E28 controller, which you’ll see powering many partner drives over the next couple of years. They sent us over a 2TB reference drive, which features their E28 controller teamed with KIOXIA BiCS8 218-layer TLC 3D NAND flash.”- thinkcomputers.org
Source: thinkcomputers.org