2/18/2026 at 10:50:00 PM
by m463
2/19/2026 at 3:03:43 PM
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.by xingped
2/19/2026 at 6:11:55 AM
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.
by rkagerer
2/19/2026 at 1:26:08 AM
Are data centers already liquid cooling their PCIe 5 SSDs? It seems difficult to use these without that in place.by cyberrock
2/19/2026 at 7:46:10 AM
Cool, so how do I go about buying one without being a multi-million-dollar enterprise?by yellowapple
2/19/2026 at 9:21:09 AM
> multi-million-dollar enterprisePuny enterprises
by blackoil
2/19/2026 at 12:17:34 AM
cool. But PCIe 4.0 is doing just fine for me thanks.by cheschire
2/19/2026 at 2:03:07 AM
And the 640kB of RAM!by cromka
2/19/2026 at 1:33:36 AM
bean soup theory in actionby joshu
2/19/2026 at 1:51:49 AM
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.by cheschire
2/18/2026 at 11:13:05 PM
And if you ask how much it is, it's not for you.by theandrewbailey