Going from fast to fastest, Colorado based Liqid Element is offering a PCIe Add-In-Card SSD. It is intended for the enterprise market, but the values are staggering. How does a NVMe based SSD sound with 7.0 GB/s and 6.3 GB/sec writes ?

The Element AIC offers a Gen 3.0 x8 PCIe interface, which enables high throughput and low latency transactions and utilizes the latest NVMe protocol in order to deliver increased performance and efficiency from a single device. The AIC outperforms legacy architectures by delivering 1.25 M IOPS of random performance, over 7 GB/s of throughput, and ultra-low transactional latency of 20 us.

They Japan based company Servant International that is behind the Liqid Element PCIe SSD will release MLC and TLC version and to expand a little on IOPS performance:

• Ran. Read IOPS (4k) ~1,250,000
• Ran. Write IOPS (4k) ~900,000

Liqid Element PCIe SSD Does 7 GB/s and 1.24M IOPS