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[Pemalite]

JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

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.

Not initially they didn't.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16087/the-samsung-980-pro-pcie-4-ssd-review/7

The PCI-E 4.0 drives were an improvement over PCI-E 3.0, but not a generational improvement like they are now.

JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

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!

Absolutely.

I have tried to avoid going the NAS route, but I think it's going to have to happen.

Hardest part is trying to get high capacity mechanical drives that don't use Helium for cold storage...