Marvell Announces PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller With Up To 14GB/s Transfer Speeds

Marvell recently announced the Bravera SC5, a PCIe 5.0 SSD controller which the brand boldly claims to be an industry first. To state the obvious, the controller is designed to support the yet unreleased PCIe 5.0 interface, as well as NVMe 1.4b.

Regarding NVMe 1.4b, the new transfer interface is said to have double the performance of current PCIe 4.0 SSDs. By that claim, the Bravera SC5 could achieve average sequential read and write speeds of 14GB/s. To break it down further, that’s about 4GB/s per lane, and up to 128GB/s in an x16 configuration.

As exciting as this may sound, Marvell says that the Bravera SC5 won’t be made available to the average consumers. Instead, the company is aiming its new controller towards data centres that wish to future-proof their systems with breakneck speeds and scalability in storage. Oh, and also applications with ultra-low latencies in real-time applications.

So far, Marvell is offering two variants of its new PCIe 5.0 controller, an 8-channel model and a 16-channel model. As mentioned earlier, both have maximum sequential read speeds of 14GB/s, while their sequential write speeds are capped at 9GB/s. In addition, both variants have random read and write speeds of up to two million IOPs and one million IOPs, respectively.

Facebook Now Allows You To Transfer Your Posts To Other Platforms

Facebook today revealed that it has rolled out a new feature which would allow its users to preserve their published posts to platforms outside of its ecosystem such as Google Docs, WordPress or Blogger. This greatly expands the existing data transfer tool for photos and videos that was introduced by the social media company last year.

The new feature is part of a cross-company data-sharing initiative that launched in 2018, simply known as the Data Transfer Project. Its aim is to have users freely move their data across various online services and platforms seamlessly without restriction. Among those participating in this initiative includes Apple, Google, Microsoft and Twitter – all of which also have introduced their own data-export tools.

Concurrently, as noted by The Verge, the introduction of this new feature would also help bring Facebook in line with two recent regulation laws, the California’s Consumer Privacy Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. “We hope this tool empowers people to take control of their data and encourages the creation of updated rules around data portability by lawmakers,” said company Chief Privacy Officer Michel Protti. “We look forward to working with more experts and companies to expand the scope of what you can move between platforms.”

This new addition to Facebook’s information transfer tool is now available to all users across the globe. Those who wish to utilise the feature may find it in the “Your Facebook Information” page, under the platform’s Settings page. From there, you can choose which type of content you wish to transfer, and to which platform outside of Facebook that you want it delivered to.

Keep in mind that the choices of transfer destinations will differ depending on what type of content you wish to move. Also, it’s worth noting that any data ported to other platforms will not include elements such as comments or data from other users, as they belong to their respective owners.