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This is the drive to beat, and it only costs a few dollars more than the cheapest options. Keeping things in-house means Crucial could get more performance from Phison’s E26 controller. It has the fastest speeds available at 11,700MB/s sequential read, which is unsurprising since every other PCIe Gen5 manufacturer is using Micron’s 232-layer TLC NAND to make its SSDs. The Crucial T700 Gen5 NVMe SSD is my recommendation for anyone buying a PCIe 5.0 SSD today. What you need to know about the best PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs in 2023 If you really need the speed and like the look of the MSI, it's perhaps better to wait. That’s because it’s using the newer 232-layer Micron NAND, which has been in low supply until recently.

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It’s worth mentioning the upcoming M570 Pro model again, which will have sequential read speeds of up to 12,000MB/s and write speeds of up to 10,000/MB/s. MSI is also giving these SSDs a five-year warranty. The drives have up to 1,400TBW of endurance, with the 1TB model only having 700TBW, in line with other manufacturers’ endurance ratings. This is easily removable by unscrewing some bolts along the sides, so it is a good option whether your motherboard already has heatsinks built in. The Spatium M570 comes with an attached heatsink with stacked fins in an attractive bronze coloring.

MSI is selling this SSD in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB configurations, and a Pro version is coming later this year as well. That means it has a theoretical maximum of 10,000MB/s, and MSI has managed to squeeze every MB/s of performance out of the Phison E26 controller that every other drive on this list also uses. The MSI Spatium M570 uses the slightly-slower 176-layer Micron NAND, which is rated at 1,600GB/s. It has an endurance rating of 700TBW per 1TB of capacity (meaning the 2TB model will have a 1400TBW endurance rating), which should mean this SSD will last you for a very long time before it needs replacing. This drive has a six-year warranty, which outpaces the average of five. That heatsink can be removed if your motherboard already has integrated heatsinks. It will be annoyingly noisy though, as tiny fans often are, so you might want to leave it unplugged. The chunky heatsink keeps things cool under sustained transfers and has a tiny fan that supposedly helps. The drive comes in an M.2 2280 single-sided form factor, and comes in capacities of 1TB and 2TB. It was the first PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD on the market, beating the competition by a slim margin. That’s not the fastest, but it’s also not the slowest, and this drive has other things going for it. This model has sequential reads up to 10,000MB/s, and writes up to 9,500MB/s. The in-house brand for SSDs is getting into the PCIe 5.0 market early, with the Inland TD510. Inland might not be a name you recognize, but you probably know of its parent company, MicroCenter.

It's backed by a five-year warranty, which seems to be the standard for this gen. Only one current game supports this, Forsaken, but others are coming soon. This reduces loading times for textures and other assets while lowering CPU utilization. The drive also supports Microsoft’s DirectStorage, which enables your graphics card and SSD to transfer data to each other without it first going through the CPU.

The options with already-attached heatsinks are for motherboards that don’t already have onboard metal heatsinks to keep things cool. We should mention that PCIe 5.0 SSDs run hot, and you will want a heatsink for them to work properly. The T700 drive is available in capacities of 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB, with or without heatsinks. Crucial has the edge as Micron is its parent company and gets access to the newer technology first, so it can optimize its SSDs accordingly. Those flash packages are using Micron’s 232-layer TLC NAND3, which has a maximum speed of 2.4GB/s. The drive comes in an M.2 2280 single-side form factor with an NVMe controller, a DRAM chip, and two flash packages.