The American company presented the first SSD disk PCIe Gen6, a high-performance storage solution that is aimed at the professional sector (servers and data centers), and which is part of a wider product portfolio with which Micron hopes to optimally cover the needs of next-generation AI.

In the mainstream consumer market PCIe Gen5 SSD They haven’t finished taking off yet, and there is a good explanation for that. On the one hand, there are its previous high sales, which are double those of PCIe Gen4 drives with twice the capacity, and on the other, we have the question of performance, and although the raw numbers indicate a huge difference in practice, the real impact is hardly noticeable, except in very specific cases.

With that in mind, I think it makes sense that a PCIe Gen6 SSD It will be a while before they reach the consumer market, And when they do, they may not be very well received unless the selling price is reasonable. Ultimately, we are in a situation where for the average user even a PCIe Gen3 x4 drive is more than enough to achieve good performance and the price differences are too great.

What PCIe Gen6 SSD offers

We don’t have any details on the type of memory Micron used in this unit, nor did they provide information on capacity or retail price. You have only shared one piece of information which is that this drive can achieve sequential read speed up to 26 GB/s.

This means that it is able to double the maximum speed of most current PCIe Gen5 SSDs, which reach 12 GB/s. Some drives can reach 14 GB/s, which means that even at best the difference between the two standards would be 12 GB/s.

We must keep in mind that although the raw numbers are impressive, in the endWhat matters is the actual performance in various applications and tools. For certain professional profiles and in certain sectors, a PCIe Gen6 SSD can make a huge difference, but for any average user today, this level of performance is unnecessary.

Micron says so will offer more information and will provide technical demonstrations at this year’s FMS, currently underway at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. They can take the opportunity to provide more information on important things like the type of memory used, drive capacity and sequential write speed.