Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoMicron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for nowwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkMicron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for nowwww.techradar.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoIt wasn’t that long ago when RAM had similar transfer speeds. With PCIe 6, consumer grade SSDs shouldn’t need more than a single lane. That will be nice since AMD and Intel have been pretty skimpy with the PCIe lanes lately.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoThe latency of RAM has been around 10ns for the last couple decades. The latency of a good NVMe SSD is about 1000 times worse than RAM.
It wasn’t that long ago when RAM had similar transfer speeds.
With PCIe 6, consumer grade SSDs shouldn’t need more than a single lane. That will be nice since AMD and Intel have been pretty skimpy with the PCIe lanes lately.
What about latency though?
The latency of RAM has been around 10ns for the last couple decades. The latency of a good NVMe SSD is about 1000 times worse than RAM.