Silicon Motion has announced the official launch of their first generation of PCIe 4.0-capable NVMe SSD controllers. These controllers have been on the roadmap for quite a while and have been previewed at trade shows, but the first models are now shipping. The high-end SM2264 and mainstream SM2267/SM2267XT controllers will enable consumer SSDs that move beyond the performance limits of the PCIe 3.

Under normal circumstances, we would have a decent number of machines running Ubuntu 20.04 by now, probably including our login servers. But the situation is not normal, because ongoing world and local events still have us working from home, making it not so simple to install and deploy a new physical server with a new version of Ubuntu. However, it really looks like this is the new normal so we s