SATA + PCI Express = SATA Express
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If you're talking music, mashups are so, like, 2005. To be honest, we never really got into mixing Disturbed with the Backstreet Boys to begin with. But when you start talking data transfer specification mashups our ears start to perk up. Our sonic receptors are standing at full attention today, after the Serial ATA International Organization announced the development of a new specification that combines the SATA infrastructure with the PCIe interface to form a Voltron-like super-spec.
The SATA Express specification (creative name, huh?) will offer 8Gbps and 16Gbps speeds and should be available by the end of the year. SAIO says the spec being developed targets SSDs and hybrid drives that are chafing at the edges of the 6Gbps SATA3 spec. Drives that don't need that kind of transfer speed – like flash memory-less HDDs – will continue to use the still-speedy SATA3 spec.
"The specification will define new device and motherboard connectors that will support both new SATA Express and current SATA devices," the group's press release (PDF) says.
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bolod
December 26, 2011 at 10:26pm
It took me several days to read it because I’d read it in snippets, leave to do something else, and then come back to it.
bolod
December 26, 2011 at 2:25am
Nice information, many thanks to the author. It is incomprehensible to me now, but in general, the usefulness and significance is overwhelming.
rruscio
August 09, 2011 at 4:30pm
Do I really need this giant hollow empty air flow container for cooling overrought video cards, or connecting a bajillion USB 2.0 3.0 cables to?
Really? Giveth thee not a fark about my desktop / upgrade needs / audio issues / cooling / whatever?
Give me a break, pls.
I Jedi
August 09, 2011 at 12:15pm
I had been playing around with the idea of building a new rig this September to replace my aging two year old gaming rig; however, with the recent announcement of this new spec for SATA and PCI, I'll hold off until early next year. Only four more months away, I can wait!
tornato7
August 09, 2011 at 10:50am
They should just mashup all of the specs into USB 4.0. All of your components go into those slots and so do all of your flash drives and peripherals. that would be cool.
aarcane
August 09, 2011 at 7:07pm
so what, do we just have dummy slots on the motherboard and 24 some-odd sata-express ports, and we run up to 16 to each graphics card and one or more to each harddrive and use the rest for external peripherals ?
Brad Chacos
August 09, 2011 at 10:54am
No way -- this here's the spec that could slay Thunderbolt:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/pci_express_developing_blazing-fast_external_standard
By the way, Mars Volta rocks.
chart2006
August 09, 2011 at 4:42pm
Not unless it's an eSATA Express... lol! Thunderbolt is an external based spec using external devices unlike SATA which is an internal based spec.
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