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ok odd question or maybe a silly one. I have been searching for something noticeably faster by a decent margain then a Kingston hyperx 3k ssd drive.

for this question in paticuler I ran across a Plextor M6e PX-AG256M6e PCI-E
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820249043&cm_re=Plextor_M6e_256GB-_-20-249-043-_-Product

now I have only run across 2 of these newage reasonable price devices and that's only because I read aboput them in the news. im guessing pcie or m.2's will be faster /new standered maybe)

but back to my question I only found these by reading nes but when searching on newegg for the life of me I cant figure out where to narrow down my search results because both the Plextor (286bucks) and the ASUS ROG RAIDR Express PCI-E 240GB PCIe 2.0 x 2 (380bucks) are both a wie bit more then I want to spend. (250 after tax roughly is about my budget)

so basicly if I make search criteria m.2 or pcie theres no search results remotely close to these two very fast products. so what am I missing? where are the other ssd's with speeds notably faster then a Kingston hyperx 3k (im assuming they would be noticeably faster?)
 
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The new SATA 3.2 international standard was officially adopted less than one year ago so it is relatively new. The new standard includes the new M.2 NGFF ssd's designed for mobile computing and PCIe ssd's for desktop computers. SSD companies are focusing on M.2 ssd's for mobile computing. For the past two years mobile pc's have outsold traditional desktop pc's.

Consider M.2 ssd's as PCIe and SATA ssd's. Those ssd's and motherboards can typically support both PCIe and SATA 3 6Gbps data transmission via the M.2 connector. The M.2 connector can recognize both types of data. You could have an M.2 connection with just PCIe, just SATA, or both types of data transmission. It just depends on what a company decides to do

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The new SATA 3.2 international standard was officially adopted less than one year ago so it is relatively new. The new standard includes the new M.2 NGFF ssd's designed for mobile computing and PCIe ssd's for desktop computers. SSD companies are focusing on M.2 ssd's for mobile computing. For the past two years mobile pc's have outsold traditional desktop pc's.

Consider M.2 ssd's as PCIe and SATA ssd's. Those ssd's and motherboards can typically support both PCIe and SATA 3 6Gbps data transmission via the M.2 connector. The M.2 connector can recognize both types of data. You could have an M.2 connection with just PCIe, just SATA, or both types of data transmission. It just depends on what a company decides to do

Currently the fastest ssd is the Samsung XP941 M.2 mainly because it makes use of 4 PCIe channels. Unfortunately it is not yet readily available to consumers. Currently it is an OEM only model made for pc companies such as Dell, Apple, Sony, Lenovo, Acer, etc. etc. There is a very small number of select vendors authorized to sell it as a replacement drive. As of last week there was only one motherboard that can properly support the XP941. That motherboard is the ASRock Extreme6.

It will take the rest of the year for the industry to sort things out.

I maintain the ssd database listed in a sticky at the very top of this forum section. Here is the link:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html

Each brand is divided into PCIe, M.2, SATA 3, and mSATA sections. Follow the links to the technical reviews.

 
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