In article , Paul
wrote:

What even comes close, as a competitor ? AFAIK, NVMe
is winning right now.

has won.

sata 3.2, aka sata express, is stillborn.

If a storage tech comes along that used 8 lanes
to connect to the motherboard, then it will be the
next winner.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10125...ie-x16-ssd-cap
able-of-10gbs
At the Open Compute Project Summit this week in San Jose, Seagate
will show off a pair of upcoming enterprise NVMe SSDs with impressive
throughput specifications. The drives will have PCIe x16 and x8
interfaces and provide maximum throughput of 10GB/s and 6.7GB/s
respectively. Seagate has provided few details so far, but it's safe
to say those numbers are peak sequential read speeds.