Our list has picks for best PCIe 4.0 SSD overall, best on a budget, best for a game consoles, and more. Plus what you need to know about ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 drives in general.

Best budget PCIe 5.0 SSD While this Crucial drive might not be setting our Gen 5 NVMe benchmarks aflame, it also stays remarkably cool under pressure, and is available for very reasonable prices.

Silicon Motion's SM2267 and SM2267XT meet the requirements of mainstream and value client SSDs and feature four 16Gb/s lanes of PCIe and four NAND channels with up to 1, 200 MT /s per channel ...

PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD Launch The first batch of PCIe Gen 5 based NVMe SSDs will be available in the market along with the Ryzen 7000 processors and AM5 motherboards by the end of 2022. We expect ...

The group aims to create a new, standardized drive connector for PCIe SSDs; it will also specify features, like hot-plug capability, and a 2.5" form factor.

Though PCIe 5.0 SSDs are supposed to arrive this year, all signs point to 2023 and maybe even 2024. Several of these drives have been announced, but they are all enterprise drives.