Question What's next after NVMe, pci-e, and optane SSDs?

[UKTone]

HDDs are becoming extremely cheap, and more games are requiring ssds. I'm hoping for something much faster than ssds to come out so ssds can possibly start selling even cheaper with larger storages. But, what is the latest upcoming technologies for storage? Is there a site to find the latest upcoming tech? There are optane storages, but they are expensive and not entirely sure why someone would buy them... could you guys clue me?

I'm excited for CES *2024, hope we get some pci-e 6 and 7 stuff. Thanks in advance.

 

[USAFRet]

HDDs are becoming extremely cheap, and more games are requiring ssds. I'm hoping for something much faster than ssds to come out so ssds can possibly start selling even cheaper with larger storages. But, what is the latest upcoming technologies for storage? Is there a site to find the latest upcoming tech? There are optane storages, but they are expensive and not entirely sure why someone would buy them... could you guys clue me?

I'm excited for CES 2023, hope we get some pci-e 6 and 7 stuff. Thanks in advance.

Optane has been discontinued.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm excited for CES 2023, hope we get some pci-e 6 and 7 stuff. Thanks in advance.

CES 2023 was 10 months ago.

 

[CountMike]

HDDs are becoming extremely cheap, and more games are requiring ssds. I'm hoping for something much faster than ssds to come out so ssds can possibly start selling even cheaper with larger storages. But, what is the latest upcoming technologies for storage? Is there a site to find the latest upcoming tech? There are optane storages, but they are expensive and not entirely sure why someone would buy them... could you guys clue me?

I'm excited for CES 2023, hope we get some pci-e 6 and 7 stuff. Thanks in advance.

All but NVME on PCIe are obsolete, SATA is barely hanging on by skin of it's teeth and sheer quantity of cheap drives produced and in use including HDDs.
NVME as protocol on M.2 format is still far from hitting the wall as it works of PCIe bus which doubles bandwidth (speed) with every new version (up to v6.0 now and hitting RAM speeds). What I can see for now may be increasing PCIE lines from 4 to 8 which could increase bandwidth exponentially and include larger amounts of fast cache memory.
The only thing missing is capacity in large quantities for low price but that will come with newer transistor technology and stacking.

 

[UKTone]

@USAFRet Oh i didn't know they discontinued it, wonder if there'll be something that replaces them in the future, even if it isn't Intel. And lol, yeah i meant CES 2024.

@CountMike Yeah that's the only thing i see so far happening too, is ssds clocking at pci-e 5+ speeds, but hoping there are more outlets so prices don't become ridiculous for motherboards and pci-e ssds for too long.

 

[Order 66]

All but NVME on PCIe are obsolete, SATA is barely hanging on by skin of it's teeth and sheer quantity of cheap drives produced and in use including HDDs.
NVME as protocol on M.2 format is still far from hitting the wall as it works of PCIe bus which doubles bandwidth (speed) with every new version (up to v6.0 now and hitting RAM speeds). What I can see for now may be increasing PCIE lines from 4 to 8 which could increase bandwidth exponentially and include larger amounts of fast cache memory.
The only thing missing is capacity in large quantities for low price but that will come with newer transistor technology and stacking.

I couldn't imagine how fast a PCie 5x16 SSD would be. I'm not even sure what kind of controller you would need to keep up with that.

 

[Colif]

the faster they get the less you will notice. PCIe 4 is fast enough for most of us.

Not a lot of use for being able to send that much data. In homes anyway.

One thing restricting nvme is the space they take up on motherboard. Unless they start putting slots on back or have nvme stand vertically, there is only so much space on motherboard you can put them. We don't even have a 16tb nvme yet so storage space on an nvme needs to grow before hdd will completely be useless. Storage isn't just about how fast it is.