There is no doubt that today, if we want to take advantage of the maximum reading and writing speed in a storage unit, we need to use PCIE, specifically to units compatible with version 5.0.
On the market, we can find a large number of SSDs compatible with PCIe 4.0 and very little compatible with PCIe 5.0. However, this does not mean that manufacturers sleep in laurels. One of the most veterans of SSD manufacturers and Sandisk memory cards has just announced a new SSD compatible with PCIE 5.0 which is distinguished by its low consumption and its high transfer speed.
New SSD SANDISK PCIe 5.0
The new SSD that Sandisk has just presented has a consumption of only 7Wthe same thing we can find in most units SSD PCIe 4.0. Most PCIe 5.0 SSD units currently available on the market have a minimum consumption of 10 W.
As for the transfer speed, this new unit has a Sequential reading speed 14,500 MB / SY of writing 14,000 MB / s. Sandisk also showed what are his future plans with the QLC and TLC platforms when he returned to the market. Sandisk was bought in 2016 by Western Digital and since then it has set aside the design and manufacture of high performance SSD units, leaving this work to Western Digital.
Sandisk has not concluded many details on this unit and has limited itself to the announcement of its performance. Various analysts speculate that he will have the SM2508 controllerA control which, in the past, has proven to be very effective in terms of energy consumption.
Sandisk has also presented a new SSD platform based on QLC with PCIe 4.0 connectivity and storage capacities which exceed 2 TB. These offer a 53% increase in reading speeds and up to 44% of performance D 'Random writing compared to the SN5000, their predecessor.
According to the main vice-president of the engineer and the management of Sandisk products:
It will undoubtedly be the best product in its class in the industry. Original team players and manufacturers will love this product.
By 2028, estimates that 75% of all the products that launch the market QLC NAND To improve the storage capacity of your products. Last year, many manufacturers stopped manufacturing units SSD PCIe 3.0, Focus on PCIE 4.0. Sandisk declares that in 2028, he intended to eliminate the support of his SSD compatible with PCIe 4.0 By 2028 and focus only on PCIe 5.0.
Price and availability
This new Sandisk PCIe 5.0 unit will be available with capabilities of 512 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB and 4 TB. The scheduled date of the market launch is the Second half of 2025It is therefore always very soon to know what its price will be.
On the market, we can find SSD units of 1 to compatible with PCIe 5.0 and speeds of 14,000 MB / s for around 200 dollars, which allows us to obtain an approximate idea of its price when it will reach the market . The price of other units also compatible with PCIE 5.0 to 11,000 MB / S varies between 150 and 200 dollars.
