Question How come there is no enclosure for PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD?

[modeonoff]

Hello, I found several PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD but I have not seen any enclosure for them. How come?

Will such combo have higher speeds than Thunderbolt 5 NVMe SSD enclosure?

What kind of NVMe SSD is needed to take advantage of Thunderbolt 5? The Samsung 990 Pro seems to be outdated for Thunderbolt 5 enclosures when they become available.

 

[CountMike]

Hello, I found several PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD but I have not seen any enclosure for them. How come?

Will such combo have higher speeds than Thunderbolt 5 NVMe SSD enclosure?

What kind of NVMe SSD is needed to take advantage of Thunderbolt 5? The Samsung 990 Pro seems to be outdated for Thunderbolt 5 enclosures when they become available.

Gen 5 NVMe SSD are like hen's teeth right now, give it some time. Even gen3 took couple of years to develop and make external adapters with appropriate speed interface.

 

[Maxxify]

Hello, I found several PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD but I have not seen any enclosure for them. How come?

Will such combo have higher speeds than Thunderbolt 5 NVMe SSD enclosure?

What kind of NVMe SSD is needed to take advantage of Thunderbolt 5? The Samsung 990 Pro seems to be outdated for Thunderbolt 5 enclosures when they become available.

There are 80Gbps TBT5 enclosures that pass x4 PCIe 4.0 lanes, that's about the extent of it. These will take Gen5 drives but they will run at Gen4 speeds. So a drive like the 990 PRO is just fine. Honestly, you won't be bottlenecked by that fast of an external connection as the actual native flash speeds top out at about 4.45 GB/s with the Rocket 5 if you're talking sustained transfers. Even that would require a substantial queue depth.