AORUS next-gen storage is fast

Storage companies begin to tease their new PCIe Gen5 M.2 SSDs drives.

AORUS has just confirmed its Gen5 10000 SSD for M.2 interface. This storage has no heatsink, and it is kept in black color scheme. Thus far AORUS only confirmed a 1TB variant.

AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD, Source: AORUS

More importantly, AORUS revealed how much performance does this new drive have. A 1TB variant supposedly reaches 12453.9 MB/s and 10074.5 MB/s in sequential read and write CrystalDiskMark tests respectively.

AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD, Source: AORUS

A quick comparison to AORUS 7000s Gen4 SSDs shows that the new model is up to 75% faster in read and 82% faster in read.

Later this month AMD is set to unveil its Ryzen 7000 desktop platform featuring support for PCIe Gen5 storage and GPUs. Although Intel 600-series motherboards did support PCIe Gen5, only 16 lanes are available from the 12th Gen Core CPU, meaning that by using SSD Gen5 storage the GPU speed would be limited to 8 lanes. In other words, storage manufacturers didn’t really have an incentive to launch faster storage, at least until now.

Source: AORUS