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Experimental Micron PCIe 6.0 SSD hits a massive 30.25 GB/s, but it's not ready for your rig yet | Double the speed of today's fastest consumer drives


It all sounds great, as long as you're not expecting to pop one into your gaming rig anytime soon. Dubbed the Micron 9650 Pro, the SSD is...

What makes it special is its potential to hit a jaw-dropping 30.25 GB/s in sequential read and write speeds – double the throughput of today's fastest consumer SSDs. These switches allow devices like GPUs and SSDs to communicate directly with each other, skipping the CPU entirely - something that's becoming increasingly crucial in high-performance AI workflows. What was demoed at Computex is currently in the EVT3 (Engineering Validation Test 3) stage, meaning it has already gone through two rounds of hardware tuning and is now being used to fine-tune performance and compatibility.

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