Testing The First PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Has Been Disappointing

For some initial benchmarks of the Inland TD510 I tested it on an Intel Core i9 13900K testing against a few other Gen4 NVMe SSDs. The Inland TD510 was tested both at PCIe 4.0 speeds using the M.2 slot and then at PCIe 5.0 speeds using an ASUS PCIe 5.0 NVMe adapter to the motherboard's lone PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, given the motherboard's lack of a native PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot.

The SSD testing on the Intel Raptor Lake system was done while running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the Linux 5.19 kernel and using an EXT4 file-system across the board. For these initial figures the Inland TD510 (at Gen4 and Gen5 speeds) were compared to a WD_BLACK SN850, Samsung 980 PRO 2TB, and Solidigm P44 Pro 2TB drives for getting an idea how the performance is looking for this Gen5 SSD.

Following these comparison results are some thermal metrics for the Inland TD510 as the results obviously raise questions whether thermal played a role in some of the low performance results...