PCIe x4 SSDs are coming, but are they going to be affordable

ginjaninja

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ginjaninja said:
so are you confident that Asus X99 will support M.2 PCIe NVMe ...is it a foregone conclusion?
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Don’t think it matters if they are NVM as that’s up to the OS. The bit the matters to the mainboard is PCI-E or SATA M.2 and the ASUS X99 supports both. There are reviews of the Intel PCI-E 4x SSD’s been bootable for Windows 8.1 and that’s NVM.
 
I find it ridiculous people are so hung up on read/write speeds, unless you're transferring to an equally fast medium they are largely meaningless.

IOPS and 4K performance are what matters.
 
BlackAle said:
I find it ridiculous people are so hung up on read/write speeds, unless you're transferring to an equally fast medium they are largely meaningless.

IOPS and 4K performance are what matters.
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Memory, thats faster medium...eg. for boot times, application loading, virtual machine loading, virtual machine disk performance, swap file, must all help.

what is it about 4k that is of interest to a home user..what aspect of performance does it tend to indicate.

whilst it is easy to get hung up on numbers, Im hopefull that PCIe/NVMe does represent a step forward..

if your paying for a board that supports it...you want to use it..
 
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not a proper retail channel with warranty, and 16 week lead time from america..but looks like they will available for OCUK to resell..albeit 50% more expensive GB for GB
 
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