Significantly faster SSDs will become available in 2022 thanks to the impending arrival of the PCIe 5.0 standard, and with CES around the corner, one company has teased its first PCIe Gen 5 M.2 SSDs.

Future PCIe Gen 5.0 SSDs may be much larger than the previous models, and while that can be a good thing in terms of performance and cooling, it could also have one key flaw -- compatibility.

Micron has shown off the capabilities of its next-generation PCIexpress 6.0 SSD, hitting over 27GBps during a DesignCon 2025 showcase. In a partnership with Astera Labs, Micron paired two PCIe 6.0 ...

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PCIe 5.0 SSDs haven't quite taken off yet, especially for PC gaming. But the winds might soon change as Samsung's just started producing some incredibly fast and supposedly very efficient PCIe 5 SSDs.

Samsung's 990 EVO can utilize the PCIe 5.0 bus, but it's constrained to two lanes (x2) and performs strictly like a PCIe 4.0 SSD. A somewhat pricey, and not particularly fast PCIe 4.0 SSD, at that.

In this case, we’re looking at 1.7x and 1.9x faster speeds than PCIe 4.0 drives, respectively. Power consumption goes up to 608 MB/s per watt for the PCIe 5.0 SSD.

As the launch of next generation platforms with PCIe 5.0 SSD support draws closer, Phison has showcased a PCIe 5.0 SSD in action. As expected, it's fast. The engineering sample drive is based on ...

We've also yet to see PCie 5.0 SSDs incorporate other controllers, like the Silicon Motion SM2508 rumored to be ready by Q4 2023 or InnoGrit's IG5666, used in an Adata drive teased at CES this ...

SSD manufacturer ADATA teased some PCIe 5.0 SSDs at CES last month (albeit without an expected release date), boasting of read speeds up to 14GB/s and write speeds of up to 12GB/s using a Silicon ...

Kioxia’s first PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD will arrive with storage capacities ranging from 2TB to 8TB in Q4. The company is preparing a second product for 2022 with capacities from 1.6TB to 15TB.