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		p1esk on April 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NVMe, the fast future for SSDs PCIe 3.0 uses 128b/130b line encoding, not 8b/10b.

ChuckMcM on April 5, 2015 [–]

Thanks for the update. So closer to 586MBps for full bandwidth.

sigterm on April 6, 2015 | [–]

PCIe2 has 5Gbps lanes. PCIe3 has 8Gbps with updated encoding.

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