Gigastone Corporation Game Pro 512GB internal SSD

Game Pro 512GB SATA SSD

The Gigastone Game Pro is a 512GB 2.5 inch internal solid state drive built with 3D NAND and a SATA III 6Gb/s interface. It targets owners of laptops, desktops and PS4 consoles who want a direct hard-drive replacement. Sequential reads reach 540 MB/s and writes reach 500 MB/s, while random 4KB performance hits 95000 read and 90000 write IOPS.

Straightforward 7mm drive swap

The 7mm z-height fits standard 2.5 inch bays in most PCs, ultra-slim notebooks and the PS4 without adapters. Connect the SATA data and power cables, secure the drive and the system will recognise it. The only common issue is forgetting to initialise the new volume in the operating-system disk utility before cloning or installing.

SATA III bandwidth ceiling

The SATA III link caps sustained throughput at roughly 540 MB/s read and 500 MB/s write, so the drive cannot exceed those figures regardless of NAND speed. Endurance is rated at 256 TBW with a 1,500,000-hour MTBF, suitable for typical consumer workloads but not for heavy write-intensive server use.