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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

I don't think the price of current NVMe drives will change with the arrival of the 5.0 ones. Th performance jump isn't as big as the jump from 3.0 to 4.0, plus they need beefier cooling that makes them a lot more expensive.

It's normal whenever we transition to a new PCI-E version, takes awhile for SSD's to really saturate the bus.. But the first lot of drives tend to run warmer.

Better drives will come later.

The first PCIe 4.0 NVMes already got close to reach 7000 MB/s, almost twice the values of 3.0 drives. With the new 5.0 SSDs the max we get is 10000MB/s and, while the raw increase is roughly the same, the percepcion is that the gains aren't that big.

They'll improve over time, no doubt about it, but for now they have too many drawbacks to attract most consumers. Therefore, prices of current drives won't change much.

Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

And for me, the hardest part to choose is becoming the motherboard. I didn't know they had changed so much in the last years an dthat needing more than 4 SATA ports would be like a luxury, especially on AM5 motherboards. The lack of reviews doesn't help either, even more so if you're not going for the high end parts.

You can buy a PCI-E SATA card if you need more SATA ports... Not ideal, but with many PC Cases not even having a bay for an optical drive and the transition to SSD's, it's a legacy port now.

I thought about that, but for the 30€ or so that can cost, it's easier to just get another motherboard that already has the ports I need.

And yeah, the day I have to replace my case I'll have troubles. The plan would involve getting a NAS box before that happens, but the ones with 4 bays are so damn expensive!