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    SATA 3.2 Finalized, Includes SATA Express

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by WhatsThePoint, Aug 9, 2013.

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    SATA-IO, the group in charge of maintaining the SATA specification, has announced (PDF) that revision 3.2 of SATA has been finalized. Importantly this revision brings SATA Express, which melds SATA and PCI Express for bandwidth of up to 2 GB/s, giving high-speed solid state drives the protocol they need.

    SATA Express works by utilizing two lanes of PCI Express 3.0 for faster drives that require up to 2 GB/s of bandwidth, or standard SATA 6 Gbps (0.6 GB/s) for slower items such as hard drives. Traditionally PCIe has been reserved solely for graphics cards, expansion cards and some high-end storage drives, but with SATA Express both SATA and PCIe technologies can coexist.

    https://www.sata-io.org/

    SATA 3.2 finalized, includes SATA Express for 2 GB/s of bandwidth - TechSpot

    SATA-IO PDF:
    https://www.sata-io.org/sites/default/files/documents/SATA_v3 2_PR__Final_BusinessWire_0.pdf
     
    WhatsThePoint, Aug 9, 2013
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