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No consumer grade ones I believe. Maybe some $5K+ enterprise ones :P 

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Definitely not worth it right now. Wait for it to become a standard and wait for better, faster drives on Express. Sata Gen3 SSDs were ridiculously expensive and now you can get a 128GB for like 60 bucks!

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Okay, thanks everybody for replying. I'll stick with SATA3 until Express becomes cheaper.

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If you can find a Samsung SSD XP941 and have an M.2 slot that supports PCIe direct on your board, it will put any other single ssd to shame and it is not unjustifiably expensive. 

 

Anandtech has a good write up of the drive.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8006/samsung-ssd-xp941-review-the-pcie-era-is-here/10 

 

The only problems with it are that it is very picky about what systems it will work with as a boot drive and that is very hard to find in stock. 

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If you can find a Samsung SSD XP941 and have an M.2 slot that supports PCIe direct on your board, it will put any other single ssd to shame and it is not unjustifiably expensive. 

 

Anandtech has a good write up of the drive.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8006/samsung-ssd-xp941-review-the-pcie-era-is-here/10 

 

The only problems with it are that it is very picky about what systems it will work with as a boot drive and that is very hard to find in stock.

I actually found it in my local store. But they only have 1 in stock and it's very expensive (about 500 euros). I'll stick with Crucial MX100s for now.

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