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ne of the easiest
ways of giving
your system a
performance
boost is to
upgrade your storage. This is
particularly true if you’re still
rocking a spinning hard drive
or two, although SATA SSDs
will also see a notable speed
boost when you upgrade to
the latest drives. Right now,
the best storage around uses
the PCIe 4.0 interface to
produce blistering read
and write speeds.At the moment only AMD’s
Zen 2 and Zen 3 platforms
natively support PCIe 4.0
drives, although Intel’s
next generation of CPUs
(codenamed Rocket Lake)
will also jump aboard this
particular super speedy wagon.
So even if you don’t have a
supporting platform right now,
you will do when you next
upgrade, which is why we
think that moving over to a
PCIe 4.0 supporting SSD is
the best way of protecting
your storage investment.GROUP TEST
PCI e 4.0 SSD s
Next-gen storage is key to the future of
gaming, and here are your best options
right now. By Alan Dexter
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