: Includes the M.2-1A connector amperage improvement for better power delivery. Connector Refinements
The pad finish requirement has changed from standard ENIG (Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold) to to support the higher insertion cycles required for enterprise PCIe 5.0 drives. pci express m.2 specification revision 5.0 version 1.0 pdf
The primary advancement in this revision is the doubling of the data transfer rate from 16 GT/s (PCIe 4.0) to . For a standard M.2 x4 SSD, this translates to a theoretical maximum throughput of approximately 16 GB/s (bi-directional), compared to the 8 GB/s limit of Gen 4. : Includes the M