High performance for exascale data center deployments

Micron Technology has announced the begining of qualification for its new 6550 ION NVMe SSD, the world's fastest 60 TB data center SSD, and the industry's first E3.S PCIe Gen 5 60TB SSD.

M.2 PCIe 5.0 peaking at 10,000/8,500 MB/s

Corsair has announced its new MP700 ELITE series PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs that will be available with and without the heatsink, and come in 1TB and 2TB capacities.

Coming in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities

KIOXIA Europe has announced its new external storage solution, the EXCERIA PLUS G2 Portable SSD Series. To be available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, the EXCERIA PLUS G2 Portable Series features a USB 3.0 Gen 2 Type-C interface and impressive transfer speeds.

Kingston still king for now

Chinese SSD manufacturers are making significant strides in the SSD market, driven by strong local demand and support.

For enterprise and datacenter implementation

KIOXIA America has announced the availability of its new KIOXIA XD8 Series PCIe 5.0 Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S SSDs.

Claims industry's most powerful PC SSD for AI

Samsung has announced that it has started the mass production of the PM9E1, a PCIe 5.0 SSD. Based on 5nm controller and 8th Gen V-NAND, Samsung is promising industry's highest performance and largest capacity.

In 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacity and peaking at 7,250/6,300MB/s

Samsung has officially launched its new 990 EVO Plus SSD, promising an enhancement of up to 50 percent compared to the previous generation and using the latest 8th generation V-NAND in combination with a 5nm controller.

Genuine G560 brings 14,000MB/s sequential speeds

KLEVV has announced two new SSDs that will both be available in October, the Genuine G560 PCIe Gen 5 and CRAS C715 PCIe Gen 3. The Genuine G560 PCIe Gen 5 is KLEVV's first PCIe Gen 5 SSD coming in capacities of up to 4TB, while the CRAS C715 is a revamped PCIe Gen 3 SSD with SLC caching.

Up to 4TB and 6,000MB/s

Kingston has announced it has started shipping its new NV3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD, which will be available in capacities of up to 4TB and reaching sequential read and write performance of up to 6,000MB/s and 5,000MB/s.

Peaks at up to 7200MB/s

Western Digital has rather silently added an 8GB version of its WD Black SN850X SSD, which now sells in both standard and heatsink options for $849 and $899, respectively.