Its going to be a long wait before we see a PCIe 6.0 gaming SSD, according to the head of SSD controller manufacturer Silicon Motion. In an interview, the companys founder and CEO, Wallace C. Kou, says that were not going to get a PCIe 6.0 SSD until 2030, with PCIe 5.0 SSDs providing the ceiling of storage performance in desktop PCs for the next five years.Silicon Motion makes the controllers for many of the best gaming SSD designs around right now, including the new super-fast WD Black SN8100, which already gets close to saturating the PCIe 5.0 bus with its immense sequential read speed of 14,900MB/s. Weve also already seen a PCIe 6.0 SSD demonstrated at Computex, but when it comes to PC gaming hardware, it looks as though theres not much interest in progressing to this new standard for SSDs. Continue reading Gaming SSDs won't get much quicker for at least five years, says drive makerMORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming