HighPoint Technologies has just unleashed what might be the most insanely fast storage solution we’ve ever seen. Their new Rocket 1608A PCIe Gen5 card, when paired with a fleet of cutting-edge SSDs, achieves read speeds that will make your head spin – we’re talking a jaw-dropping 60GBps.
This beast of a card is the spiritual successor to HighPoint’s SSD7540, which impressed back in 2022 with its 28GB/s throughput. The Rocket 1608A takes things to an entirely new level, leveraging the raw power of PCIe Gen5 to push theoretical bandwidth up to 64GB/s.
The secret sauce here is the card’s design. It’s essentially a hyper-efficient traffic cop for data, using a Broadcom PLX89048 switch to direct flow between its eight PCIe Gen5 x4 M.2 slots. There’s no cumbersome RAID interface to slow things down – just plug and play compatibility with any OS that has built-in NVMe support.
In benchmark testing by TweakTown, the Rocket 1608A hit peak performance with just five of Crucial’s blazing-fast T705 2TB Gen5 SSDs installed. Adding more drives didn’t significantly boost speed (thanks to PCIe Gen5 x16 slot limitations) but it did pile on the available storage.
Now, before you start planning a complete overhaul of your gaming rig, a word of caution: this isn’t consumer tech. The Rocket 1608A is squarely aimed at professionals dealing with massive datasets or high-volume content creation. For those workflows, this card could be a genuine game-changer, potentially boosting efficiency and profitability.
The price tag? Well, let’s just say if you have to ask, you probably can’t afford it. But for businesses where every millisecond of data access counts, HighPoint’s latest creation might just be the holy grail of storage solutions.
