M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD's - Is now is the time to wait on upgrading!?!?!

[pigeonguyuk]

Well the title might be slightly miss leading as i probably don't know what i'm talking about but here goes xD

I seen in previous post that Phison have launched their new E18 Gen 4 Controller which i believe is more durable with transfer of 1200MT/s

https://www.phison.com/en/company/n...livers-fastest-pcie-gen-4x4-nvme-ssd-solution

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/new...als-samsung-980-pro-with-7-gbps-of-throughput

Then i have seen the news of Micros new 176-Layer NAND which states upto 1600MT/s

https://www.micron.com/products/nand-flash/176-layer-nand

So assuming Micron have not tested their controller with this new NAND theoretically it might be able to push this NAND to the maximum 1600MT/s which is a 33% increase in performance. Are we on the horizon of possible 10k+ sequential read speeds?

 

[pigeonguyuk]

might only get a nice 500gb gen4 one during black friday. instead to 500gb+1tb one and wait to see what happens going forward . then can reuse the one i buy in an external enclosure for the ultimate portable drive xD

 

[pigeonguyuk]

Can pick up a Seagate firecuda520 500gb for £85 atm seems decent price. what you think?

Decided and nabbed a 1TB Firecuda 520 instead of the 500gb as the better overall read/write speeds. With **** 20% code got a bargain for £162.82. Will more than do my needed and if new drives push the prices on these drives down will get another