PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSDs of 2022


2022 was the year SSDs squeezed the last few morsels of performance from the PCIe Gen 4 protocol. Well, at least in terms of peak sequential throughput. When it comes to IOPS and random 4K performance, arguably there’s still plenty of room for improvement.

Next year, we’re looking forward to the arrival of Gen 5 drives and just maybe a decent step in up in terms of IOPS. But for now, Gen 4 M.2 drives are as good as it gets and there were indeed some excellent SSDs this year. But which M.2 SSD was actually the best we saw throughout 2022?



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