In case you missed it earlier, Zotac's new Sonix PCIe 480GB SSD is based on latest Phison PS5007-E7 controller, Toshiba MLC NAND and 512MB of DDR3 SDRAM cache. The performance is quite decent so you are looking at up to 2600MB/s for sequential read and up to 1300MB/s for sequential write. This could be quite interesting as it offers much higher performance than your standard 6Gbps SATA SSD. 

The Zotac Sonix PCIe 480GB SSD is based on half-length half-height PCI Express 3.0 x4 card form-factor and features End-to-end Data Path Protection and Dynamic Wear Leveling. 

Earlier this week Anandtech.com managed to get the US price information which puts the Zotac Sonix PCIe 480GB SSD at US $369.99. According to the information, it should be available in mid-March.

We asked around and our Zotac source suggest that Europe should get it by the end of March with a price set at around €349, depending on the region. 

This price puts the Zotac Sonix PCIe 480GB SSD in line with similar offerings, or even slightly cheaper as the the Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe 480 GB SSD is selling at around US $370/€370 while Samsung’s 950 Pro M.2 PCIe 512 GB SSD is selling at around US $330/€310. Intel's SSD 750 400GB PCIe SSD sells at just over 400€ in Europe and around US $350 in the US but offers significantly lower performance, which makes the Zotac Sonix PCIe 480GB SSD a bargain. 

The PCIe NVMe SSD market is certainly getting bigger and a bit more affordable and it will become quite interesting when Sandforce SF3500 controller becomes available later this year.