Samsung has finally come up with a competitive PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Samsung's new 9100 PRO Series solid-state drives (SSDs) include the company's first consumer-grade 8TB NVMe SSD. The latest models use the speedy PCIe 5.0 standard, which — unless you train AI models for a living — is almost certainly overkill for your PC needs.

Part of what makes it Samsung's fastest SSD series to date is that it's the company's first consumer storage solution to hitch its wagon to the PCI Express 5.0 bus, which in turn enables much higher throughput than what's possible with PCIe 4.