It looks like it’s taken eternally for the most recent and best storage normal to launch an up to date spec, however the wait is over. Gigabyte’s Aurous Gen5 SSDs, which look like the very first PCIe 5.0 M.2 drives to hit the market, at the moment are obtainable for buy. You will get this super-fast drive, rated for learn speeds as much as 9,500 megabytes per second, proper now…if you’ll find it in inventory, and also you’ve been saving your pennies.
The Aurous Gen5 10000 is available in each 1TB and 2TB capacities, with that huge passive cooler included within the bundle (you may set up it in an 80mm M.2 slot with or with out the cooler). In accordance with Tom’s {Hardware}, the retail value of the 2TB capability was briefly proven at $350 on Newegg…earlier than it immediately went out of inventory, each there and on Amazon. So the drives are going out, however you’ll must be extraordinarily fortunate to get one of many first ones.
In fact so as to really make the most of the unimaginable velocity capability of PCIe 5.0, you’ll want a motherboard that may deal with it. These have been in the marketplace for over a 12 months simply ready for the drives to reach. For those who can wait a bit longer, Samsung, Corsair, MSI, Patriot, and others ought to have competing drives out someday this 12 months or early subsequent.