At 28,000 MB/s, the first PCIe Gen 6 SSD is officially faster than DDR4 RAM
How-To Geek, Monday, February 16th, 2026
It doesn't always make the headlines, but the performance improvements we've seen since solid state storage went mainstream have been staggering.
Which is a little ironic, since most of the things we do on our computers (even most video games) don't really need faster storage than a SATA III SSD provides. Certainly the only time I really get to enjoy my 7GB/s SSD is when I copy files to and from it.
Still, while us mere mortals may not have a use for anything faster than a PCIe 3.0 drive, (although you really shouldn't buy those) the march of progress is relentless, which is why we now have the absolutely bonkers Micron 9650 PCIe Gen6 SSD.