The World First PCIe 4.0x 4 Controller, Phison PS5016-E16 controller, made by 28nm manufacturing technology. The advanced fabrication process ensures PS5016-E16 has enough compute power for ECC processing when adopting the latest 3D TLC NAND flash. PS5016-E16 also features eight NAND channels with 32 CE targets, DDR4 DRAM caching, & a PCIe 4.0x 4 interface. As for features, the chip supports the NVMe 1.3 protocol, LDPC error correction, & Wear Leveling, Over-Provision technologies to improve reliability & durability of SSDs. PCIe 4.0x 4, NVMe 1.3 Interface DDR4 DRAM cache 8 CH with 32 CEs Phison 4th Gen LDPC & RAID ECC Support Pyrite Heat spreader for controller Selected High Speed 3D TLC NAND Flash (800MT/s) The selected & high quality NAND Flash optimizes circuitry & architecture by increasing to 96 layers for higher storage space per unit area. 800MT/s throughput on the AORUS Gen 4 SSD far exceeds that of PCIe 3.0x 4 devices for superior storage performance. Xtreme Storage Performance With the new PCIe 4.0 controller, AORUS Gen 4 SSD delivers blazing speeds: up to 5, 000 MB/s for sequential read, & up to 4, 400MB/s sequential write. Sequential Read performance of PCIe 4.0 SSDs is up to 40% faster than PCIe 3.0 SSDs. Get ready to enter the next generation of computing with faster & smoother, gaming, streaming, & graphics intensive rendering. SSD Tool Box The newly updated SSD Tool Box is a software that gives users an overview of the SSD Status & various aspects such as model name, FW version, health condition & sensor temperature. Moreover, users can clear all the data with the Secure Erase function. You can download the SSD Tool Box from the link.