Samsung announces PCIe 5.0 SSD… finally

It’s here. It’s finally here

TO QUOTE STARCRAFT… hell, it’s about time. It’s finally here, ladies and gentlemen: the thing that Guy and I have been pining for literal months over many a Story of the Build video. We finally have Samsung’s latest PCIe 5.0 x4 drive. Yep, at long last, nearly two years on from their initial release, Samsung has announced the arrival of its own SSD to join the club, and it comes with some top-tier specs. We’ve got two samples in our office currently: the heatsinkless 4TB variant, and the heatsinkked 2TB variant, and boy do they punch. 14,800 MB/s read, 13,400 MB/s write, and random read/write IOPS at 2200K/2600K: it’s a bit of a beast. Each drive comes with 1x 1GB of LPDDR4X cache per TB of storage, too, meaning the…

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