Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 12000
I’ve got a need; a need for sequentials
THIS IS Gigabyte’s Aorus Gen5 12000 PCIe 5.0 SSD, second edition. We’re long past the days of paltr y 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 par ticularly 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 industr y 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.