XDA Developers on MSN

PCIe 3.0 SSDs are fast enough for 95% of PC users

SSDs have now shifted to PCIe 5.0 with some drives hitting insane speeds of 14,000MB/s. However, the reality is these speeds ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

CES 2026 day 1: Lenovo debuts wild rollable OLED laptop concepts, Asus laptops galore, PCIe 5.0 SSDs stretch into the value market

Lenovo is not afraid to show off concept designs for PCs that may or may not eventually reach the public market. CES 2026 is ...
ExtremeTech

Micron's 3610 Are PCIe 5 SSDs for Affordable Gaming PCs

The 3610 are a DRAM-free PCIe 5 SSD range offering sequential read speeds up to 11,000MBps and sequential write speeds up to ...
TweakTown

PCIe 5.0 power connector allows up to 600W of power, for next-gen GPUs

PCIe 5.0 is right around the corner with it debuting on Intel's new Alder Lake platform, with the new 600-series motherboards led by the Z690 chipset rocking PCIe 5.0 slots and DDR5 memory support. We ...
BGR

The First PCIe 5.0 SSD Will Deliver 13,000 MB/s Speeds

The 2021 MacBook Pro models feature SSDs that reach up to 7,400 MB/s read speeds, which is a new record for Apple's Macs. The drives are even faster than the 5,500 MB/s custom SSD that powers the ...
PC World

Samsung’s first PCIe 5.0 SSD is here and it’s stupidly fast

Samsung’s new PM1743 might be aimed at servers, but as the first PCIe 5.0 SSD to arrive, it’s should still titillate storage nerds about what’s likely to come for consumers. The PM1743 essentially ...
TweakTown

This is what the next-gen 12-pin PCIe 5.0 power connector looks like

My source added: "It's in the PCIe 5.0 CEM spec. Not sure how many people got it wrong and why it's suddenly "news" because of ASUS. The 12-pin portion is actually the same as the FE connector". "And ...
PC Magazine

What Is PCI Express 5.0, and Why Does It Matter for the Newest SSDs?

The latest version of PCI Express brings massive bandwidth increases to PCs, enabling truly blistering SSD read and write speeds up to 14,000MBps. Here's what you need to know to get your PC storage ...
PC Gamer

PCIe 5.0 is nearly four years old and it's still virtually worthless in gaming PCs

This month I've been testing: Not very much, actually! Well, a spot of cable-hiding tech by Asus and one of Gigabyte's latest laptops, but I've mostly been testing out a new display panel colorimeter.
DatacenterDynamics

Marvell acquires PCIe and CXL switch provider XConn Technologies for $540m

California-based chipmaker Marvell has acquired PCIe and CXL switching silicon provider XConn Technologies for approximately ...
PC World

Blisteringly fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs debut in November

If you want to build the fastest PC you can around AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 processor, you’re going to have to wait until November. New SSDs built using the PCI Express 5.0 interface will debut then, AMD ...
Ars Technica

PCIe 5.0 is just beginning to come to new PCs, but version 6.0 is already here

The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has finalized version 6.0 of the PCI Express standard, the communication bus that lets all the stuff inside your computer communicate. The new version of the ...