Hardly any manufacturer has positioned itself as broadly as MSI in recent years. A few years ago the company was mainly known for its graphics cards, motherboards and notebooks, but the product portfolio now also includes numerous other gaming components. These include housings, input devices, headsets and even monitors. As part of the digital CES 2021, MSI announced on Wednesday evening that it would also enter the SSD business.

Like MSI yesterday in its CES livestream after the presentation of numerous new notebooks – like the GE 76 Raider Dragon Edition Tiamat or the Stealth 01 M – announced that in the future they will also sell their own SSDs and thus dare to enter the market. However, they did not yet have specific product names and only spoke of wanting to make appropriate announcements soon.

Just this much: When entering the market, there will initially be two different models, each based on the M.2 plug-in card format and equipped with a massive passive cooler will be. They should offer up to 4 TB of storage space, have a PCB with ten layers and communicate via PCI-Express 4.0 and four lanes, which of course allows particularly high sequential read and write rates. MSI gave this with at least 7. 00 0, or 6. 900 MB / s.

TLC chips are to be used, which will of course be bought. However, not a single word was said about the controller used. On top of that there will be a number of security features. “ The SSDs will last a long time “, promised MSI product manager Bryant Lin full-bodied during his presentation. The MTBF and thus the mean operating time between failures is given as 1.6 million hours, which is intended to underline the statement.

MSI did not provide any further details in the evening, but wants specific details soon Present details and of course first products. There will be more announcements shortly.