Lite-On has announced their EP1 M.2 SSDs that should be able to achieve sequential read and write speeds of respectively 1500 MB/s and 1200 MB/s. Mainboard with M.2 become more common, Â especially on boards with the X99 chipset. Unfortunately not all boards are able to deliver the possible high speeds of the compact M.2 SSDs.
To circumvent any limits, Lite-On has developed their EP1 series SSDs. These SSDs use the PCI-Express 2.0 x4 interface and therefore should be able to achieve the 1500 MB/s and 1200MB/s sequential read and write speeds. The drive is specified to achieve 150,000 IOPS when reading and 44,000 IOPS for writing.
Besides the PCI-Express 2.0 x4 interface also a Marvell 88SS9293 controller and Toshiba A19 MLC NAND contribute to the drive's impressive performance. The Lite-On EP1 series consists of SSDs with capacities of 480 and 960 GB. The first with a length of 80mm , the latter with a length of 110mm. The drives don't support NVMe but do support AHCI.
Lite-On has not announced any pricing and availability information.
