The Crucial T700 Pro points to an inevitable future for gaming. Ever since the beginning of this art form, "the loading screen" has been synonymous with the experience. The annoyance of waiting, of anticipating the next level or section of a game has been frustratingly baked in. Over the years, we've seen creative ways of mitigating these stop-gaps - tapping mini-games, squeeze-throughs that secretly load your next section of gameplay - anything to stop our attention from being lost.
Now, technology looks to bring about the loading screen's demise once and for all. New Gen 5 SSDs take the already ridiculous speeds of PCIe Gen 4 and just about double them, making the best SSDs for gaming found in PCs, the PS5, and Xbox Series X look like amateur bits of back-alley tech. But are we really there yet, and will the loading screen ever disappear completely?
