[STEAM] Gaming SSDs won't get much quicker for at least five years, says drive maker

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gaming SSD, according to the head of SSD controller manufacturer Silicon Motion. In an interview, the company's founder and CEO, Wallace C. Kou, says that we're not going to get a PCIe 6.0 SSD "until 2030," with PCIe 5.0 SSDs providing the ceiling of storage performance in desktop PCs for the next five years.

Silicon Motion makes the controllers for many of the

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designs around right now, including the new super-fast

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****** SN8100, which already gets close to saturating the PCIe 5.0 bus with its immense sequential read speed of 14,900MB/s. We've also already seen a PCIe 6.0 SSD demonstrated at Computex, but when it comes to

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, it looks as though there's not much interest in progressing to this new standard for SSDs.

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