THIS IS Gigabyte's Aorus Gen5 12000 PCle 5.0 SSD, second edition. We're long past the days of paltry 7 GB/s; this is the real deal, full-fat 12GB/s sequential transfers at a queue depth of 32. Unlike the Crucial T700, there's no masonic handshake required to get this beauty to sing at its advertised speeds. Slap a good heatsink on top of it (or the huge stock one it comes with), get that thing ripping and roaring, and you're good to go.
Gigabyte's a bit of an interesting case when it comes to storage. For the longest time, it wasn't particularly a field that the company excelled in. It was there, it had options available-usually budget SSD solutions and the like-but it was only when the industry shifted to PCIe 3.0 M.2 SSDs that the brand really dived into the field. But again, simple budget solutions, not the grand touting flagships we see today.
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