Western Digital’s leaked PCIe 5 SSD could possibly be an utter velocity demon

I think about that it’s bought to be tremendous irritating to work on a product launch for months or years…just for a retailer to spoil the large reveal by placing up a list forward of the official announcement. That appears to be the case for a brand new Western Digital Gen 5 SSD, which claims to have learn speeds of 14.9 gigabytes per second. That will make it the quickest client drive on this planet if it holds.

Twitter/X leaker @momomo_US noticed the Amazon Germany web page for the unannounced WD Black SN8100, which seems to be a follow-up to the favored SN7100 sequence (PCWorld’s favourite Gen 4 drives). This new 1TB PCIe 5.0 drive claims to have sequential learn speeds of as much as 14,900MB/s, which might let it beat the Essential T705 by a hair, a minimum of on paper. As Tom’s {Hardware} notes, it could even be reaching nearer to the theoretical most velocity of PCIe 5.0, 16 gigabytes a second on the usual x4 SSD lane setup.

The itemizing says that the drive can write at 14,000MB/s and that the standard 2TB and 4TB fashions may even be obtainable, presumably each in the usual 2280 (80mm) measurement and with the pictured slim heatsink. The Amazon itemizing says it’ll price €199.99 for the 1TB model and arrive on Could thirtieth, a minimum of in Europe. With the present financial chaos from import taxes, I wouldn’t enterprise a guess as to what it’ll price within the US.