Colorful, a leading manufacturer of PC hardware components, after the presentation of its low-cost SSDs a few months ago, has now announced the introduction of three new models that aim for maximum performance, all based on PCIe standards and among the first to show off the latest SiliconMotion 2262, 2263 and 2263XTL controllers: we are talking about the CN600 DRAM-less series, CN600 DRAM and CP600 iGame.
” Although the first SSD product lines from COLORFUL have just been released just 3 years ago, thanks to the partnership between SiliconMotion and NAND manufacturers, COLORFUL SSD products are among the top 3 in terms of market share in China. This new launch of SS600 series CN600 and CP600 today will be the beginning of another adventure among high-end products, ” said Jerry Tsao, DGM of Colorful Storage.
As for the CN600 DRAM series, it has been developed on SMI2263 controller combined with DRAM designed to increase the transfer speed up to 2.4GB/s in reading and up to 1.7GB/s in writing: a more powerful version of the previous one, with M.2 NVMe form factor, in this case it is equipped with a heat sink that traces the entire surface of the PCB in order to keep the temperature produced by the chips under control.
The CP600 series will be available in capacities from 480GB up to 2TB, while the other two series will have capacities between 240GB and 1TB; as for prices, they will be announced at a later date, for the time being, Colorful has only announced the intention to release these new SSDs on the market.