Do the speeds of a PCIe 5.0 (or now 6.0) meaningfully affect anything for your average consumer? Would games load faster or files transfer faster? Or is this just at super high-end applications and hardware that you'd actually see a difference? I don't know if there's some other part of the hardware that would limit actual gains seen by the 5.0 and 6.0 specs.

Are data centers already liquid cooling their PCIe 5 SSDs? It seems difficult to use these without that in place.

How does the latency compare to Optane?

Also, this makes me sad:

...AI race consuming NAND flash at an extraordinary rate, but consumer platforms have not yet adopted PCIe 6.0 (and won't until 2030), making a consumer variant completely useless.

Cool, so how do I go about buying one without being a multi-million-dollar enterprise?

cool. But PCIe 4.0 is doing just fine for me thanks.

And if you ask how much it is, it's not for you.