Samsung's SSD rival has just released one of the world's fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs — no, it won't beat Crucial's superfast T705 but its no-frills approach means it's likely to be much cheaper

SK Hynix PCB01 SSD.

Samsung’s big South Korean rival SK Hynix has launched its high-end PCB01 SSD, designed specifically for on-device AI PCs. 

This PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD boasts impressive sequential read and write speeds of 14GB and 12GB per second, respectively, coupled with 4K random read and write rates of 2 million IOPS.