What are you after in your next SSD upgrade? If speed is your primary desire, you will find plenty of it with the Nextorage X Series. This PCIe Gen5 compatible 2TB SSD easily crunches through files at upwards of 12 GB/s—excellent for a high-end workstation with plenty of lanes to spare. However, Gen5 drives still face a significant hurdle before mass adoption in gaming PCs: they're expensive and there's little benefit today to the faster speeds they offer.
The Nextorage X Series is right up there with some of the more performant Gen5 SSDs going, such as the Crucial T700. It's faster than the Seagate FireCuda 540 we reviewed last year, too, though it shares similarities to both drives: the Nextorage uses the same Phison E26 controller and Micron 232-layer TLC NAND.
