Larger PCIe 5 NVMe will not fit on older boards

[FourWheelDrift]

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/storage/some_pcie...

"Gigabyte has confirmed at Computex that they believe that many PCIe 5.0 SSDs will adopt the M.2 22110 SSD form factor, which is 25mm wide and 110mm long. Most of today's M.2 SSDs use the M.2 2280 form factor, which is 22mm wide and 80mm long."

If it makes the larger capacity ssds cheaper ok, something in me says it won't though.

[FourWheelDrift]

FTFT, I just copied what they wrote.

[mmm-five]

If you've got a PCIe 4 board, why would you be worried about the size of PCIe 5 m.2 SSDs?

My PCIe 4 board already has multiple screw posts for different size m.2 SSDs, so that I can put 2242, 2260, 2280 and 22110 ones in there.

[FourWheelDrift]

If they are making them that size for bigger capacities whilst getting the price down then you can't take advantage of them. Forget about speed, a PCIe 5 NVMe running at PCIe 4 speed will be way fast enough.

Currently if you want an 8TB PCIe 4 NVMe you'll be looking at £1465 - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/8tb-sabrent-rocket...

If PCIe 5 can bring that price down.

[mmm-five]

anonymous said:

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I was reading it more like the PCIe connector will be the same size, but the board would be 3mm wider...so as long as you've got 1.5mm space either side of your current housing/bay/space then it should still physically fit & connect?

I know the m.2 RAID I've got has about 1cm of clearance each side of the 4 x 2TB 2280s that are in there...although I'm unlikely to be upgrading those to larger drives anytime soon

Edited by mmm-five on Sunday 5th June 12:48