Sandisk has simultaneously announced and launched its first PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD under the WD Black banner, the WD Black SN8100. This compact drive is designed with "hardcore PC gamers" in mind, who are looking to future-proof their PC gaming rig with read and write speeds of up to 14,900MB/s1 and 14,000MB/s.
We're barely at the halfway point of the year, and already there's a ton of new Gen 5 contenders vying for the best SSDs for gaming crown, as only yesterday did fellow storage tech brand Kingston FURY release its own new PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD, with the Kingston FURY Renegade G5. Now, Sandisk has stepped things up a notch with the "world's fastest" Gen 5 drive, which also directly targets Samsung's new 9100 Pro.
