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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Dallin Grimm

Sandisk's upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSD fights throttling with 7W power

An image of the revamped 2024 SanDisk logo on red background.

Sandisk has announced a new SSD set to max out PCIe 5.0 speeds at 7W power draw, comparable to the max power draw of many modern Gen4 drives. The company, fresh off a rebrand and now the SSD/flash storage wing of Western Digital, will launch this flagship drive as part of its rollout of two new consumer SSD platforms.

At its Investor Day 2025 presentation, Sandisk (formerly SanDisk) introduced shareholders to its new position as a home exclusively for flash-based storage, positioned opposite the HDD-only Western Digital. To return to the market and adopt Western Digital's SSD products, Sandisk is launching two new SSD platforms; one is built on QLC NAND based on value, and the other is built on TLC NAND for performance.

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