There are a large number of next generation components that seek to use the latest standards created to take full advantage of the capabilities they are capable of offering, although the biggest problem is that their implementation is not something something we will soon see in the general market. But this does not mean that the development of next-generation hardware components has been completely paralyzed and that a company is already preparing the generation leap for the SSD What would happen to implement the standard PCIe 6.0although its aim is to bring them to the enterprise environment rather than the user-oriented market.
One of the main problems that can currently be encountered with standards such as PCIe These are the capabilities that large companies have to adapt them to the environment intended for the average user. The reason this happens has to do with the frequency with which new versions of this bus are released, as the major brands that develop components cannot keep up with the pace that the Interconnection Special Interest Group has. Peripheral Components to update it, because they seek to launch a new version every three years while the time to adopt new technologies when we talk about components is between 2 and 6 years.
Soon we could see faster storage thanks to PCIe 6.0 SSD
The first developments that we have seen with the standard PCIe 5.0 Oriented both for professional environments and for customers, they took place in 2022, when the first controllers appeared capable of offering the speeds authorized by the 5.0 standard, doubling what the previous one offered. In this aspect, the objective of PCIe 6.0 it's the same, try to offer the double of anchor of band than what PCIe 5.0 is capable of allowing, allowing devices that use it to have a bandwidth of practically 32 GB/s.
This standard was presented in 2022 with the aim of replacing the previous one, but obviously the development times of these technologies are quite long so now, three years later, we have news of one of the first controllers that will use these units of storage. In this case it will come from Silicon Motion and will be part of My Titan, the new SM2466 which uses a new production node that allows the inclusion of more processing cores, which ultimately results in better performance, better features and greater support for next-generation 3D TLC and 3D QLC NAND memory types.
The controller that the company is developing belongs to the family of models intended for a professional and commercial environment, that is to say, it will have all the security protections that can be expected for this type of hardware. But from there until we see the first PCIe 6.0 SSD It will still take a long time to appear in the user-oriented market, because it is not the top priority of any company for obvious reasons, too high development cost, low compatibility with current hardware and poor forecasts of sales.
