Now I thought the pci-e slots were for pci-e cards,,,,
That's why they are lined up to plug a card in for external use.
And the amount of pci-e slots were limited.

hmmm
could make it interesting on a mini-itx pcb, and pci-e hdd's

I hope the pcb manufactures know about this revelation........ ie no sata connectors only pci-e slots?


second thought..
I didn't know the SSD/HHD's have passed the bandwidth capability of Sata2 yet?

My guess is that they will use the PCIe bus, but not a PCIe slot. Probably a new connector on the motherboard.

TVeblen said:

My guess is that they will use the PCIe bus, but not a PCIe slot. Probably a new connector on the motherboard.

The SATA Express connector is shown on page 2:
Asus Z97-A puts Intel's 9 Series chipset through its paces ? The Register

The M.2 version is shown here:
Samsung XP941 M.2 PCIe SSD Review (512GB) - New Ultra Standard Exceeds 140K PCMark Vantage Score | The SSD Review


If this info is correct, then there are SSDs in the pipeline that exceeded the current SATA 3.0 limits late last year.

As the speed of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hybrid drives increased, even faster data transfer rates were required between them and the host computer. As of the second half of 2013, high-end consumer SSDs have already reached the SATA 3.0 speed limit of 6 Gbit/s, requiring a faster host interface.[5][6]

More recent info:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06...ed_disk_drive/

This type of tech is already out there ASUS ROG RAIDR Express PCI-E 240GB PCIe 2.0 x 2 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.ca
It sounds like they want to take it one step further with a new connector just for SSD drives.

alphanumeric said:

This type of tech is already out there ASUS ROG RAIDR Express PCI-E 240GB PCIe 2.0 x 2 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.ca
It sounds like they want to take it one step further with a new connector just for SSD drives.

Ok I know this is off topic but after seeing alphanumeric's post I just had to.

I've been keeping this thing around for nostalgia sake for a lot of years. Probably still has MSDOS 6.22 on it.

For those of you too young to remember that interface is for an 8 bit ISA slot and was designed to work in computers that were built with no HDD interface.

This one was in an 8086 IBM that probably weighed in at 70lbs.

Capacity a whopping 10MB. Initial cost in the $1000.00 neighborhood.

Funny how things come (sorta) full circle.

lol, my first real home PC motherboard had 6 ISA slots on it. That was it, there was no PCI. No onboard anything except one of those big 5 pin DIN keyboard ports. That meant an ISA card for Video, another one for sound, and a multi IO for floppy, hard drive and serial parallel ports. Oh and one for the modem and eventually one for NIC. That left one spare slot. MSDos and Windows 3.11. lol, something around about a 20 MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM. < At the time. I'm not going to say when that was though.