PCIe 5.0 has become widely accepted, and the modern, energy-saving controllers have made the cooling towers of days gone by obsolete. The SSDs with the new E28 controller - Corsair MP700 Pro XT and PNY CS3250 - are in the top group, but they cannot displace the competition with the SM2508 controller from Silicon Motion...

The range in this test is wide. The Raspi SSD performs well on the Raspi, but there are better alternatives for other applications. Among the 4.0 SSDs, the Seagate SSD and especially the Samsung 990 Evo Plus with its dual interface stand out, the latter mainly due to its comparatively low price...

Bread and butter SSDs use PCIe 4.0 and are fast enough for everyday use, even if they use the rather slow QLC flash. This is particularly noticeable with the WD_Black, which as a gamer SSD no longer even needs a DRAM module. The NV7400 from Biwin is almost as fast, while the three other 4.0 SSDs are more in the entry-level class...

The Crucial P310 is the fastest 2230 NVMe SSD we've ever tested, and by a pretty wide margin. It's not cheap, but it's number one in our charts.