Buying a PCIe 5.0 SSD still makes no sense
When PCIe 5.0 SSDs were first announced, they looked like the future, promising super-speedy SSD storage as the best SSDs around. It's now nearly two years since the first Gen 5 SSDs were announced (and one since they hit the market), and while we're getting close to the maximum speeds promised by PCIe 5.0, the newest SSDs on the block aren't living up to their promises. While they do have astonishing straight-line speed, most computing tasks rely on random access, which puts Gen 5 on an even footing with Gen 4. The newest SSDs also consume a lot of power, close to the maximum the M.2 specification can supply, and far too much to be used in laptops yet. Unless you're one of the edge cases that rely on sequential data transfers, PCIe 5.0 SSDs are in a strange position of being more expensive, more power-hungry, and not being that much faster for normal tasks, and which...
When PCIe 5.0 SSDs were first announced, they looked like the future, promising super-speedy SSD storage as the best SSDs around. It’s now nearly two years since the first Gen 5 SSDs were announced (and one since they hit the market), and while we’re getting close to the maximum speeds promised by PCIe 5.0, the newest SSDs on the block aren’t living up to their promises. While they do have astonishing straight-line speed, most computing tasks rely on random access, which puts Gen 5 on an even footing with Gen 4. The newest SSDs also consume a lot of power, close to the maximum the M.2 specification can supply, and far too much to be used in laptops yet. Unless you’re one of the edge cases that rely on sequential data transfers, PCIe 5.0 SSDs are in a strange position of being more expensive, more power-hungry, and not being that much faster for normal tasks, and which makes them easily avoided by most computer users.
Franco Schock
Germany
Germany
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