At long last, PCIe 5.0 SSDs are finally worth buying

Ask most PC enthusiasts about the most powerful or fastest CPU and graphics card you can buy, and they'll probably think of AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D or Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090. But if you ask them again about SSDs, you'll get far more varied replies, and I'd bet money on few of them being a PCIe 5.0 (aka Gen 5) solid state drive.

That's because the first generation of PCIe 5.0 drives just weren't good enough to be recommended. Sure, their outright performance in sequential burst read/writes...