In around nine months’ time these speedy drives may become more affordable, Micron tells me.
It might not surprise you to learn that PCIe 5.0 SSDs, Gen 5 by another name, isn’t selling in anywhere near the sort of quantities that PCIe 4.0 is. As Micron tells me over at Computex 2024, the newer, faster SSDs haven’t reached a tipping point in popularity.
“The percentage of Gen5 shipping to the percentage of Gen4 is very small,” Dinesh Bahal, VP and GM of Micron’s Consumer & Components Group, says.
“It again goes back to ‘what am I trying to do and am I really going to be able to get the advantage of using that’.”
We’ve reviewed a good few PCIe 5.0 SSDs and ended up on the same fundamental conclusion: the benefits of a PCIe 5.0 SSD simple don’t justify the costs right now, at least not for gaming. The sequential read and write speeds are extremely quick, though the random speeds aren’t much improved.
