content: The Samsung 960 Pro M.2 drive is rated at like 3.5 GB/s reads and 2.5 GB/s writes. DDR4 RAM read/write speeds is like in the 10s of GB/s. We are quickly approaching storage being as fast as system memory.  This is super neat. Until we come up with a good reason system memory needs to be faster, we honestly don't need it to be faster. My only idea for what could be the next major push in computing power and speed would be encryption. Very few people can be bothered to encrypt themselves, so maybe one day all machines will be made to encrypt everything all the time to go around that. We'll see I guess.