I don't understand how SATA Express works exactly. This motherboard says "6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports* (2 ports reserved for SATA Express port)". I'm pretty sure, based on what I've read online, that I can ...

A hardware interface for SATA drives using two lanes of PCI Express (PCIe) in order to increase the transfer rate over regular SATA. Motherboards came out in 2014, but few drives materialized. The ...

With the last few chipset releases from Intel, there has been a lack of SATA III capable ports for connecting drives. To get around this, the most common solution was to add a PCI Express card capable ...

In May 2011, SandForce released the first SSD bottlenecked by the SATA III bus. It was just five months after Intel released the P67 Express chipset, Intel's first native SATA III capable release.

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The talk of next-gen SSDs really began with the announcement and launch of Intel's Z97 chipset, which brought along support for SATA Express and M.2 connectivity. These were standardised in the SATA 3 ...

A silly question / idle thought for you guys: Most modern SATA SSDs are bumping up against the 500MB/s bulk transfer limit. Could a SATA 2.5" SSD have two SATA ports (and two SATA cables) and be able ...

Taking a tour around this ATX board, the first thing we noticed is that although ASUS is keeping the gold and black color scheme it began using on the Z87 chipset boards, the company has toned it down ...

The motherboard is an essential part of any gaming PC since it holds all of your other internal components in place, and buying a new graphics card or more storage isn't going to help you much if you ...

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