Wow, SSD's at 40 Gbps would be sweet!
The current connectors and AHCI interface is the limitation for SSD's (and disc hard drives too) capping out at around 600 MB/s making SATA soon to be obsolete, however, SATA has already made the decision to evolve into M.2 and PCIe along with a new NVMe interface. It looks like the new NVMe interface and drivers will be supported by Windows 10, 8 and 7. We will need NVMe just to get passed the current SATA 3 at 6Gbps limitations anyway and that is what is holding back the full potential of SSD's.
NVMe
http://www.nvmexpress.org
Welcome to the fast-moving world of flash connectors
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014/11/13/flash_connectors/
The Interface of Choice for SSDs
http://www.cadalyst.com/hardware/workstations/interface-choice-ssds-21388
Jan 5th, 2015 Conference
http://storagevisions.com
August 9, 2013: AHCI and NVMe as Interfaces for SATA Express Devices - Overview
https://www.sata-io.org/sites/defau...A Express Interface Options - Whitepaper_.pdf
SATA Express
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA_Express
"With a 4 x PCI Express 3.0/2.0 bandwidth, M.2 supports up to 32Gbps data-transfer speeds..."
ASUS X99-E WS LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99
http://www.amazon.com/X99-E-WS-LGA2011-v3-CrossFireX-Motherboard/dp/B00OVAG02W/
The current connectors and AHCI interface is the limitation for SSD's (and disc hard drives too) capping out at around 600 MB/s making SATA soon to be obsolete, however, SATA has already made the decision to evolve into M.2 and PCIe along with a new NVMe interface. It looks like the new NVMe interface and drivers will be supported by Windows 10, 8 and 7. We will need NVMe just to get passed the current SATA 3 at 6Gbps limitations anyway and that is what is holding back the full potential of SSD's.
NVMe
http://www.nvmexpress.org
Welcome to the fast-moving world of flash connectors
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014/11/13/flash_connectors/
The Interface of Choice for SSDs
http://www.cadalyst.com/hardware/workstations/interface-choice-ssds-21388
Jan 5th, 2015 Conference
http://storagevisions.com
August 9, 2013: AHCI and NVMe as Interfaces for SATA Express Devices - Overview
https://www.sata-io.org/sites/defau...A Express Interface Options - Whitepaper_.pdf
SATA Express
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA_Express
"With a 4 x PCI Express 3.0/2.0 bandwidth, M.2 supports up to 32Gbps data-transfer speeds..."
ASUS X99-E WS LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99
http://www.amazon.com/X99-E-WS-LGA2011-v3-CrossFireX-Motherboard/dp/B00OVAG02W/
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