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JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Do we have any hardware that makes any use of PCI-E 5 already?

I do think 4.0 is still fine. Pretty sure they will upgrade to 5 midway with something like Zen 5 like they did the switch to PCI-E 4.0 with Zen 2.

Looking at the PCIe 4.0 specs, the max tranfer rate over 4 lines is 7.877 GB/s and we already have NVMe drives that exceed 7000 MB/s. It won't be long before it becomes a bottleneck.

So, either manufacturers start giving more PCIe lanes to storage, which they won't, or we move to PCIe 5.0.

Speaking of storage on PC, I'd love if SATA would progressively get phased out and replaced by the U.2 connector. That way you could get big drives that are too big for an M.2 slot yet don't have to compromise on the speed anymore. Sadly, looks like U.2 will stay a very limited connection now...