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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

I don' tthink we'll see Gen 5 SSD drives this year and, when they come out, they'll be crazy expensive. Besides, in most real world tests it's hard to tell apart a good Gen 3 from a good Gen 4 drive so, will it really make sense to go Gen 5 vs going with a higher capacity Gen 4?

It's surprising to see the Super cards mentioned again in the listing, but I don't see what could they be used for this late in the gen.

The annoying thing is that SSD manufacturers probably won't increase capacity of Gen 4 SSDs to over 2TB for consumers. Like it's very annoying to see the prices of 4TB and 8TB SSDs being insane prices despite being QVO and the speeds being much slower.  I would rather have a Gen 3 or Gen 4 8TB SSD over Gen 5 2TB SSD anyday of the week but alas. It's probably cheaper to increase the speeds of the controller than to make more nand chips.

It sure is cheaper to make faster drives, but when they're so fast and hot that you have to include a heatsink, and a good one, to avoid troubles, then the advantage disappears.