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Re:New Mac Pro by shaklee3 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:20AM (#20092148)
Pcie 3 was not the bottleneck for SSD. They typically are only 4 pcie lanes, when they could go up to 16 for 4x the bandwidth.
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Re:New Mac Pro by Tepix on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:56AM (#20092293)
But the standard M.2 NVMe interface happens to only have 4 lanes. PCIe4 will double the available bandwidth for these very common SSDs.
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