Faster desktop storage is finally here! Today we are taking a look at our first PCI-Express 5.0 or Gen5 solid state drive! PCI-Express 5.0 M.2 slots can be found in the latest motherboards on both the AMD and Intel side. With PCI-Express 4.0 storage we were able to achieve a max throughput of up to 7.877 GB/s and now with PCI-Express 5.0 that number is going up to a staggering 15.754 GB/s! Now not every Gen5 solid state drive will reach that speed. Today we are checking out the Crucial T700, which offers sequential read and write speeds of 12.4 GB/s and 11.8 GB/s respectively. The drive makes use of the new Phison E26 controller paired up with 232-layer Micron 3D TLC NAND. Crucial send us over both the heatsink and non-heatsink versions so we can test how the drive performs with standard motherboard M.2 heatsinks and their supplied heatsink.