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.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Monday March 17 2014, @07:41PM
Indeed, that is why I mentioned the spinning disks will still be used for archival (of multimedia it sounds like for your purposes). Still, I suspect things may very well change in this arena in the next 3 years. Time will tell.