Game Reviews 2: Prototype PCIe 5.0 SSD is already twice as fast as today's best drives

[bob_turner]

Kioxia has offered us a peek at the future of what's next in SSDs, and it's incredibly quick. With a prototype using the upcoming PCIe 5.0 protocol, the company has managed to blast into the stratosphere with sequential read speeds of up to 14,000MB/s.Kioxia compares its prototype to a PCIe 4.0 drive, the Kioxia CM6. That gets roughly 6,900MB/s sequential read and 4,200MB/s sequential write, which is easily crushed by the 14,000MB/s sequential read and 7,000MB/s sequential...

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