The SN850X is WD's fastest PCIe Gen 4 solid state drive. There are faster PCIe Gen 5 drives out there now (like WD's own ...

Designed for data-intensive applications, the new ultra-high-capacity SSDs deliver sequential read speeds of up to 14,800 MB/s and write speeds of up to 13,400 MB/s. Random ...

Together, the two new technologies surpassed a sequential read speed of 27GB/s. In 2024, Micron claimed its PCIe 6 drive would offer up to 26 GB/s sequential read speeds, so it exceeded that brag.

There isn't a set release date or price for Adata's Gen 5 PCIe SSD. But Lombardi did say it would likely launch in July around Computex, a tech convention in Taipei, Taiwan.