Greenlit for 7GB/s. AMD's adoption of the PCIe 4.0 interface for M.2 storage has provided the necessary boon for vendors specialising in cutting-edge drives. Intel is moving over to the faster standard early next year across desktop and laptop so now is an opportune time to consider a performance trailblazer.

WD duly tips its hat into this ring with a new drive dubbed the Black SN850. Promising sequential read speeds of 7GB/s and up to a million IOPS wrapped up in capacities up to 2TB, it's a sure-fire way to turbocharge any modern PC. Let's take a closer look.