It’s tough to discover a new desktop or motherboard that’s suitable with insanely quick PCIe 5.0 SSDs. But it’s even tougher to seek out the drives themselves — just a few months after the primary examples turned out there to customers, they’re nonetheless often bought out at just about all on-line listings. Hopefully the primary Gen 5 drives from Corsair, probably the most prolific reminiscence purveyors and a well-liked selection amongst avid gamers specifically, will assist ease the crunch on these speedy new storage drives.

The MP700 is Corsair’s very first PCIe 5.0 SSD, out there within the ubiquitous full-sized M.2 2280 format. Corsair claims 10GB/s learn and write on the 2TB drive, typical of Gen 5 drives with their next-gen interface and NAND reminiscence. The smaller drive is rated for 9.5GB/s and eight.5GB/s learn and write, respectively. If your system isn’t fairly prepared for that, each drives are backwards suitable with Gen 4 and Gen 3 M.2 slots.

Despite the gaming focus, Corsair omits any bombastic coolers on its drives. Maybe that’s why the costs are surprisingly inexpensive: $170 for the 1TB drive and $290 for 2TB, delivery inside one enterprise day on Corsair’s online store (a minimum of on the time I’m scripting this). That might not sound like a discount in comparison with, say, a $135 2TB Gen 4 drive, however that has roughly half the pace. Sadly, you might need to attend a 12 months or two if you’d like a Gen 5 SSD that’s officially Jedi-approved.