PC hardware manufacturer Gigabyte has unveiled the Aorus Gen5 10000 SSD, the first SSD to be using the new PCIe 5.0 controller with 3D-TLC NAND Flash.
With PCIe 5.0, the new SSD has a read speed of 10GB/s, around 55% faster than the current PCIe 4.0 SSDs.
The SSD comes in 1TB to 4TB capacity, uses the existing M.2 2280 interface and comes with a removable copper heatsink. This is handy as some PC motherboards have started to include built-in M.2 heatsinks, so you might want the included heatsink or not based on your setup.
Gigabyte claims that this generation of PCIe can go faster than 12 GB/s so there’s potential for this new generation of SSDs to be even faster. Though with faster speeds comes more heat generation- which can throttle the speed if left unchecked- so expect SSD heatsinks to be a regular thing.
No pricing and release date has been revealed for the Aorus Gen5 10000 SSD.