Unfortunately, the hardware acceleration doesn't work with Windows BitLocker, so you'll need third-party software to enable hardware-based encryption. The drive supports SMART and Trim, but unlike most SSDs, it also supports AES-256 hardware encryption that is both TCG Opal and Pyrite compliant. All of that speed would be useless without a long life span, but the SSDs come with robust endurance ratings of 380TBW (Terabytes Written) for the 256GB model and 800TBW for the 512GB. 5 hours ago &0183 &32 AMD B550 AORUS Motherboard with 10+2 Phases Digital Twin Power Design, Enlarged Surface Heatsinks, PCIe 4.0 x16 Slot, Dual PCIe 4.0/3.0 x4 M.2 with One Thermal Guard, 2.5GbE LAN, RGB FUSION 2.0, Q-Flash Plus. The Aorus RGB offers peak sequential throughput of 3.48/2.0 GB/s read/write, but its (up to) 360,000/440,000 of random read/write IOPS performance is equally impressive.

Like other high-end drives, Gigabyte's drive comes backed by a five-year warranty. GIGABYTE Aorus ATC800 RGB 120mm CPU Cooler Visit the Gigabyte Store 159 ratings -9 12263 Was: 135.00 See more Total price: Some of these items ship sooner than the others.

While the drives are more expensive than SATA SSDs, they are quite competitively priced compared to other M.2 SSDs. The Aorus RGB comes in just two capacities of 256GB and 512GB priced at $79.99 and $119.99, respectively.

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