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SSDs driving SATA Express and NVMe innovation

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @12:36PM   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, Interesting) by hamsterdan on Monday March 17 2014, @03:59PM

    by hamsterdan (2829) on Monday March 17 2014, @03:59PM (#17673)

    A faster interface will allow SSD manufacturers to parallelize them more (ie, run 32 or 64 NAND chips in something similar to a RAID-0 array, enabling even faster speeds)

    Ditch the 2.5 form factor too, I'm guessing my 120GB drive only uses maybe half or less of its casing.

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