SATA Express Storage System Released by SATA-IO

The Serial ATA International Organization has announced the development of a new hard drive interface that will increase transfer rates to as much as 16Gbps. The SATA Express storage system, claims the company, is more affordable than PCIe-based storage systems and will maintain compatibility with existing SATA applications and infrastructure. In addition, SATA SSD, a specification permitting solid state drives (SSDs) to connect directly to the main logic board of a device via ball-grid array instead of modular connectors and cables was also released by SATA-IO.

"To test the drive's actual throughput, we connected it to the SATA bus of an ASRock A75 Pro4 motherboard with AMD (NYSE:AMD)'s high-end A8-3850 APU, which incorporates four x86 cores running at 2.9 GHz, 400 Radeon cores at 600 MHz, five SIMD units, 20 texture units and 42 additional processors. We ran Iometer on 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate N with 4GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 memory.”

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