With the arrival in number of motherboards equipped with the PCIe 5.0 interface on the new generations of AMD and Intel, other products than graphics cards will be able to enjoy the benefits of this technology. In the first place SSDs. The Corsair MP700 is going to be part of this new generation of SSDs able to pass a milestone in terms of performance. So Corsair has started to leak some figures about its promising future top-of-the-line. But be warned: at the moment we don’t have any images of the product design. And you’ll see later that this matters. 
The MP700 will be able to reach sequential read speeds of up to 10,000 MB/s. As for the writing speed, it will be able to reach up to 9,500 MB/s.
New PCIe 5.0 SSDs: watch out for compatibility
Corsair’s numbers are encouraging, but higher performance is still expected in the near future. Some products could reach speeds of up to 14,500MB/s. But beware, beyond the need for a PCIe 5.0-equipped motherboard, these new SSDs will also pose “physical” problems since they will be slightly wider than current models, going from 22mm wide to 25mm. If you combine this new size with the increasingly important presence of a cooling system on the most powerful SSDs, you will have to take this new fact into account when choosing the parts of your new PC (physical compatibility with the other elements).
