The newest PCIE 4 Samsungs are 12x faster than the fastest SATA flash driveby Entropy Stew 12/07/2020, 11:48pm PST
So then the PS5 designers were like "that's not fast enough" and added a chip to do on-the-fly decompression of shit like textures, letting the PS5 load 9 gigabytes of compressed texture data per second.