Redditor shows what it would have felt like to use a high-speed NVMe SSD with a PCI slot.

Consider a city that suddenly doubled the number of lanes on its busiest highway. Traffic now flows faster, more efficiently, and with less congestion. That's exactly what PCIe 5.0 brings to PCs — ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The latest SSDs have less impact on PC gaming compared to professional uses. The latest SSDs have less impact on ...

When PCI Express 5.0 SSDs hit the market in the spring of 2023, they promised unheard-of speeds for an internal SSD, but you needed a boutique desktop PC with the latest components or to build such a ...

Micron has shown off the capabilities of its next-generation PCIexpress 6.0 SSD, hitting over 27GBps during a DesignCon 2025 showcase. In a partnership with Astera Labs, Micron paired two PCIe 6.0 ...

It won't be long before PCIe 5.0 takes over with even early SSDs crushing 14GB/s. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a ...

A Redditor who enjoys experimenting with old hardware and ancient operating systems recently tried a small but clever ...

If you find yourself in the enviable position of getting new hardware for your gaming PC, it's worth taking the time to make sure you’re getting components that are going to serve you well. When it ...

It seems that, at long last, we might finally see PCIe 5 SSDs on the market soon enough. Apacer and Zadak have just announced the first consumer PCIe Gen 5 SSDs to be released later this year. The new ...

At the ongoing Future Memory & Storage conference, Silicon Motion gave a sneak peek on its next-generation flagship SSD controller with a PCIe 6.0 x4 interface for client PCs. The new controller is ...

You hear that? The tide is turning on PCIe 5.0 prices. A new dawn is upon us, and other old-fashioned anecdotes. Here's a fast PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD for less than some PCIe 4.0 drives, and that's ...