ANACOMDA is making a nice proposal with the Phison PS5018 E18 controller, paired with 1GB DDR4 2666MHz DRAM for caching, while the NAND is Toshiba 112L BiCS5 TLC (four packages). The performance matches mainstream to high-end drives, while providing optimal performance after writing about 1TB of data (a part of the pseudoSLC will empty itself when the drive is in IDLE, so the write speed will be able to recover). The included heatspreader does succeed to keep the drive temperatures at optimal levels, but this will only happen if a healthy amount of airflow is provided in the vicinity as well!

In our HD Tune write tests, it will be shown how the drive can perform before and after the drive gets some part of the pSLC cache filled; since we are talking about TLC and not QLC, even when writing directly to the TLC portion, we will get good transfer rates and the durability is much superior to the cheaper QLC NAND:

The ANACOMDA i4-X 4TB drive is now available on Newegg for about $242 and is also bundled with a special deal.

 ANACOMDA i4-X 4TB PCIe Gen4 2280 M.2 SSD is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to ANACOMDA for making this review possible!