A new contender has arrived to rival the best SSDs: Galax (opens in new tab) has ventured into the foray of PCIe 5.0 SSDs with the HOF Extreme 50, the company’s first PCIe 5.0 SSD with sequential read speeds of up to 10 GB/s. The HOF Extreme 50’s size may look deceptive, but the drive…
MSI this week introduced its third SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. The new Spatium M570 HS drive may be considered as a downgraded version of the Spatium M570 SSD introduced last September as it has lower performance and will only offer up to 10GB/s sequential read/write speeds, enough to be among best SSDs available today. Meanwhile, the…
Apex Storage (opens in new tab), a newcomer to the storage game, has launched the X21, an AIC (add-in-card) that accommodates up to 21 PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs. With the X21, consumers can use the best SSDs to build configurations with capacities of up to 168GB and experience speeds up to 31 GBps. Apex Storage…
According to a recent Sabrent newsletter (opens in new tab), the company is developing a new “Rocket X5” PCIe Gen 5 SSD that has the potential to reach speeds of 14 GBps. This drive is currently in the prototyping stage, and Sabrent is determined to hit the 14 GBps transfer speed target for the finalized…
ASRock has launched an AIC (add-in-card) that will allow you to use up to four of the best SSDs on the same board. The Blazing Quad M.2 Card (opens in new tab) does justice to its name and provides housing for four lightning-fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs. ASRock has been making these AICs for M.2 SSDs…
China doesn’t have many homebrew graphics cards, so expectations were high when graphics card manufacturer Moore Threads revealed the MTT S80. It’s hard to tell whether the MTT S80 has what it takes to compete with the best graphics cards, but hopefully, graphics card collector Löschzwerg’s (opens in new tab) latest benchmarks can provide some…
Solid-state drives with different PCIe interfaces tend to deliver very different performance times in typical applications under high workloads, due to bandwidth constraints. But it looks like the difference between PCIe Gen3 and PCIe Gen5 drives may not be that significant with DirectStorage, according to load times from a built-in Forspoken benchmark by Compusemble.  There are…
A new video featuring the Corsair MP700 PCIe Gen5 NVMe 2.0 SSD burst onto the firm’s official YouTube channel a few hours ago, but before anyone could download and save it for posterity, it vanished. Thankfully, the team at OC3D captured some of the information shared before the video was updated to ‘private’ status. We…
The world has been waiting for PCIe 5.0 SSDs to arrive since Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs, the first to support the standard, launched in 2021. We passed through 2022 without a  non-Enterprise PCIe 5.0 drive available for purchase, but 2023 seems like the year when consumer SSDs will start shipping.  At CES, we saw…
(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Adata’s booth at CES 2023 held a few surprises, including the first SMI-powered PCIe 5.0 SSD, which peaks at a blistering 14 GB/s, a new CXL 1.1 DDR5 device, and the company’s new portable SSD that won a CES innovation award for computer peripherals. The display also confirmed that SMI’s PCIe…
