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SSDs driving SATA Express and NVMe innovation

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the faster-and-faster dept.

NezSez writes regarding an article in extremetech:

"SATA Express is SATA and PCIe over cables (preserving backwards compatibility) and NVMe is the next improvement of AHCI with much lower latencies by using the PCIe bus/lanes. Both have been developed to improve access to SSD's which have their own processors on-board and can communicate quicker than mechanical drives. The specifications look good (up to 4 times faster and can scale with improvements of PCIe) but analysts suspect it will only be adopted for small form factors.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by wantkitteh on Monday March 17 2014, @11:34AM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Monday March 17 2014, @11:34AM (#17656)

    ...although having said that, I realised that I'm automatically in my head comparing 7k SATA and SSD, not 10k SAS and SSD. So I must qualify my statement and say that the only defense SAS will shortly have is it's legacy support in everyone's racks.

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