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YOU’LL NEED • CrystalDiskMark Download it from https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark Millennial APC readers may find it hard to fathom that solid-state drives first hit the market 33 years ago in 1991. SSDs rely on non-volatile memory (usually NAND flash). This means they have no moving parts, resulting in better data transfer speeds and reduced latency compared to mechanical hard drives. Over the years, SSDs have undergone a number of revisions. The current gold standard is PCIe 5.0, which offers blazingly fast read and write speeds of up to 16GB/s. However, much depends on the number of corresponding PCIe lanes on the CPU. The number of lanes dedicated specifically to the SSD varies by the type of chip used. This may explain why SSDs using PCIe 4.0 remain a much more popular option,…

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