Solid State Drives in 2023 will reach 14.5 GB / s! But they will be fat.

Recently, a lot has been said about the arrival of the PCIe 5.0 standard to the world of PCs, thanks in large part to AMD’s bet on new Ryzen 7000 CPUs, which, in addition to this technology, will also open the door to DDR5 RAM.

now only? Yes, it is true that Intel has already supported these technologies, in its Core 12000 processor, since the end of 2021. But it is only completely undeniable now that, with all the hype around the Ryzen 7000 based on Zen 4 architecture, the market is starting to show some signs of getting ready to launch Really interesting products.

This is exactly why we’ve seen the announcement of the new and revamped DDR5 RAM sets. And recently, we have seen several announcements regarding the new generation of NVMe M.2 SSDs based on the PCIe 5.0 standard.

Which seems to, in addition to the need for new cooling systems, will also get fatter, and therefore will not be suitable for many motherboards already on the market. Why is this important? After all, we will not have the new speeds on the old motherboard! Yes, it’s true that PCIe 5.0 speed is a card out of the surface, but the new generation of NVMe SSDs can run on an older board, limited by available bandwidth…if that’s relevant!

But of course, all this has a reason for its existence. The speed will increase, and a lot!

Solid State Drives in 2023 will reach 14.5 GB / s! It’s crazy

Do you like the improved storage speeds with the transition to PCIe 4.0? Things will be even more shocking with the transition to PCIe 5.0! After all, the Chinese manufacturer of memory controllers (Deyiwei) has already announced its plans to launch a PCIe 5.0 solution capable of reaching a read speed of 14.5 GB / s and a write speed of 12 GB / s.

Of course, Deyiwei is not alone in this boat! Phison, Silicon Motion, and Samsung are also busy working on their own solutions.

Therefore, it would not be surprising to see many good SSDs on the shelves at the end of 2022, and during 2023, they exceeded 10 GB / s, and 3 million IOPS, without much difficulty.

Here it is necessary to realize that at the moment, the best NVMe SSDs on the market are only able to offer the highest speed in the order of 7 GB / s. We’re going to make a pretty big jump, which of course will put its limits on the table. At the end of the day, as I said in the title, SSDs will look a little different, because they get “fatter”, that is, thicker, and of course more complex, with air or water cooling solutions.

In short, the world of SSD storage will change, very dramatically, in the coming months. Ready?