News All the PCIe 5.0 SSDs Coming Out in the Next Year or So

[umeng2002_2]

I was thinking about getting a PCIe 4 SSD this holiday season for myself, but my Gen 3 drive is just fine until we see real DirectStorage games and programs in the wild.

 

[sonofjesse]

yea these seem to be little late. PCIE motherboards been out for months now, slow start, and I'm sure the prices will be sky high.

For those who transfer a lot of data the need for speed never hurts.

I agree 4TB and 8TB drives coming to affordable and normal would be a huge help.

 

[USAFRet]

For those who transfer a lot of data the need for speed never hurts.

That only counts when transferring between like drives.

 

[bit_user]

That only counts when transferring between like drives.

Or same drive.

I've hit I/O bottlenecks when saving losslessly-edited video files. Someone else mentioned suspending & resuming VMs. So, there are use cases for end-users, even if they're few & far-between.

 

[AgentBirdnest]

I was thinking about getting a PCIe 4 SSD this holiday season for myself, but my Gen 3 drive is just fine until we see real DirectStorage games and programs in the wild.

If I'm not mistaken, we should see the first one in a couple of weeks: Forspoken
I'm planning on buying it, and half of my reason why is just to try DirectStorage (the other half of my reason is that it looks fun.)

 

[Deleted member 14196]

100% wrong. Maybe put a spinny drive back into your system to remind yourself how much of an effect disk I/O has on a system? Heck, even a proper SSD is slow as molasses now. Let's talk about VM restore time, shall we? When I can pause and restore a 16GB (in-memory) VM in just 2 or 3 seconds, that's amazing. That's time saved. I see, and appreciate, the difference in speed every day.

I do this all the time using PCI E3 and it only takes seconds. You have a point, but it’s kind of weak.