New SATA interfaces promise faster, smaller SSDs

[AxJaWz]

The Serial ATA International Organization has announced two new specifications for its humongously popular SATA interface - SATA Express and µSSD.

http://www.techradar.com/news/compu...interfaces-promise-faster-smaller-ssds-990135

What do you guys think?

 

[sheroo]

The ssd hardware is moving so fast that they seem to be struggling to keep supplying interfaces fast enough for them. Those micro ssd's sound good, but it all depends on how they decide to implement the interface - hope they don't just solder these things onto the boards....

 

[Stryker64]

The ssd hardware is moving so fast that they seem to be struggling to keep supplying interfaces fast enough for them. Those micro ssd's sound good, but it all depends on how they decide to implement the interface - hope they don't just solder these things onto the boards....

Well that would be quite similar to what Apple have done with the MacBook Airs so µSSD will mainly affect laptops. Personally I can't see these inbuilt SSDs being part of desktop motherboards any time soon.

 

[V1Viper]

Sounds interesting.

 

[michaelah500]

But the really fast SSDs out there that use more than SATA III is capable of already ship with their own interface connector...some SSDs that go straight into an available PCIe slot, and others that go into a PCIe card of which connects to the SSD sitting in a drive bay like any other drive.

It looks good, but currently unneeded IMO.

 

[MaddocksL]

New tech always good. Even if it does seem wasteful.

 

[Rastalovich]

Indeed. We will get to stage where:

Regular HDD boot = 45 seconds.

Older, original SSD(s) = 20 seconds

Current SSD(s) = 10 seconds

.. SSD(s) to come .. 9.9832 seconds.

We'll get that crazy term people like banding around, "bottleneck", being used in reference to the software/cpu holding back harddrives. Sheesh.

 

[Lollipop]

Indeed. We will get to stage where:

Regular HDD boot = 45 seconds.

Older, original SSD(s) = 20 seconds

Current SSD(s) = 10 seconds

.. SSD(s) to come .. 9.9832 seconds.

We'll get that crazy term people like banding around, "bottleneck", being used in reference to the software/cpu holding back harddrives. Sheesh.

My SSD is 0.0168 seconds faster than yours!!!! Asuming i don't fail at math...

 

[sheroo]

We'll get that crazy term people like banding around, "bottleneck", being used in reference to the software/cpu holding back harddrives. Sheesh.

In the not too distant future, I think that the individuals using the systems will be the "bottleneck".

Moore's Law applies to computing power not people.

As computers tech matures they get faster - as people mature they get slower....

 

[Rastalovich]

hehe I totally agree with humans being targeted with the "bottleneck" stick.

Many a time you see fantastic cash being spent on rigs, only for the assembly or even OS build being so poor, half the cash is wasted.

Memory being fitted to only allow single channel operation is a classic - and trained techs do this I can assure you.

.. then you have lovely Windows 7, 32bit leveled against 8g installed (that little to no home user would ever use) alongside Norton & Eset & multitudes of other resource hogging apps.

 

[maniac]

hope these little beast will be available for desktop computers cheaper than current ssd's which are a bit expensive for me, these will make a nice upgrade from my current 7200rpm mechanical drive