Phison Pascari X200E 6.4TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD Review

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Phison Pascari X200E Front
Phison Pascari X200E Front

The Pascari X200E line is a high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD from Phison. As Phison moves from providing controllers and SSDs for other manufacturers to brand to branding its own drives with Pascari, it is also looking at competing in a number of segments. The first enterprise SSD we are going to look at from them is the Phison Pascari X200E 6.4TB. This is a drive meant for high-performance PCIe Gen5 storage, so let us get to it.

Phison Pascari X200E 6.4TB Overview

The Pascari X200E we are looking at is a 2.5″ U.2 design that will fit into most servers.

Phison Pascari X200E Front
Phison Pascari X200E Front

While many SSDs have flat sides, the X200E has small heatsink fins on one side.

Phison Pascari X200E Rear
Phison Pascari X200E Rear

On the end, we have our power and data connections.

Phison Pascari X200E Connector
Phison Pascari X200E Connector

Here is the other side.

Phison Pascari X200E Angle 2
Phison Pascari X200E Angle 2

This is one of the more interesting drives because it is one where one trades some capacity for performance. Here are the different capacities that are available from the spec sheet:

Pascari X200E Specs
Pascari X200E Specs

At 25.6TB and 3 DWPD that is a lot of endurance and capacity. We have the 6.4TB drive which is one of the top drives in the stack from a performance perspective. Something that is far from unique with this drive, but is important for modern servers is that the current crop of fast and high-capacity drives are often 23-25W devices. Even eight in a modern server uses roughly 200W plus cooling power. As a result, server and storage systems manufacturers are having to account for storage as a substantial part of overall system power consumption when they design systems. That is not unique to Pascari, we just wanted to note that as a high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD.

Now, we have had the chance to look at one in a hands-on review. Let us get to that next.

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