Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S

(tomshardware.com)

20 points | by m463 a day ago ago

10 comments

  • xingped 19 hours ago

    Do the speeds of a PCIe 5.0 (or now 6.0) meaningfully affect anything for your average consumer? Would games load faster or files transfer faster? Or is this just at super high-end applications and hardware that you'd actually see a difference? I don't know if there's some other part of the hardware that would limit actual gains seen by the 5.0 and 6.0 specs.

  • cyberrock a day ago

    Are data centers already liquid cooling their PCIe 5 SSDs? It seems difficult to use these without that in place.

  • rkagerer a day ago

    How does the latency compare to Optane?

    Also, this makes me sad:

    ...AI race consuming NAND flash at an extraordinary rate, but consumer platforms have not yet adopted PCIe 6.0 (and won't until 2030), making a consumer variant completely useless.

  • yellowapple a day ago

    Cool, so how do I go about buying one without being a multi-million-dollar enterprise?

    • blackoil a day ago

      > multi-million-dollar enterprise

      Puny enterprises

  • cheschire a day ago

    cool. But PCIe 4.0 is doing just fine for me thanks.

    • cromka a day ago

      And the 640kB of RAM!

    • joshu a day ago

      bean soup theory in action

      • cheschire a day ago

        Sure. Or I am just making a commentary on how Micron has forgone the consumer market for this. Either way is fine as an interpretation though.

  • theandrewbailey a day ago

    And if you ask how much it is, it's not for you.