When are we going to see SATA Express drives?

JoeMomma · Jun 3, 2015

My Asus Z97-AR has SATA Express ports.

Where are the drives? Are there any rumors?
Has NVMe left SATA Express dead at the starting line?

My system is using SLI and I think Z97 motherboards don't support SLI and PCI drives.
My third slot is PCIe v2.0x4 and M.2 is disabled with SLI.

jtabb1256 · Jun 3, 2015

JoeMomma :

eSATA is faster than USB 2, but very close to USB 3 (Slightly faster). USB 3.1 beats all of them, and there seems to be a movement toward USB 3.1.

I use an internal HDD to eSATA dock. I just put my internal HDD into the dock, which is plugged into my computer through an eSATA port and into the wall for electricity. Works like a charm. If you want to take advantage of eSATA, I'd advise you to do what I did. Otherwise, it's probably going to be useless.

One con of using this dock is that the computer only recognizes the drive if it is connected before the computer turns on. USB does not have this con.

spooky2th · Jun 3, 2015

Most newer boards now have a a BIOS tweak that turns individual sata ports into (can't remember the term right now) that makes the ports like a USB port so that you can plug and unplug devices without turning the comp off to do it.

HDD's cannot even get close to USB 2.0 speeds. And SSD's are knocking at the door of the sata3 6GBs speeds now. This is why the M.2 devices are starting to come out. So far there's no sata express devices?

JoeMomma · Jun 3, 2015

jtabb1256 :

JoeMomma :

eSATA is faster than USB 2, but very close to USB 3 (Slightly faster). USB 3.1 beats all of them, and there seems to be a movement toward USB 3.1.

I use an internal HDD to eSATA dock. I just put my internal HDD into the dock, which is plugged into my computer through an eSATA port and into the wall for electricity. Works like a charm. If you want to take advantage of eSATA, I'd advise you to do what I did. Otherwise, it's probably going to be useless.

One con of using this dock is that the computer only recognizes the drive if it is connected before the computer turns on. USB does not have this con.

eSATA (external SATA) is not the same thing as SATAe (Fast SATA v3.2)

jtabb1256 · Jun 3, 2015

JoeMomma :

jtabb1256 :

eSATA (external SATA) is not the same thing as SATAe (Fast SATA v3.2)

Ah. My bad. Thanks for pointing that out. I have no clue what SATAe is then lol

SinxarKnights · Jun 4, 2015

JoeMomma :

Not sure why a link to an eSATA article got best answer but whatever I guess. I was wondering the same thing but I did notice you can use the 2x SATA Express ports as normal SATA 3 ports. No difference in speed vs the others on the board.

Due to how they are arranged it makes a convenient spot to use 2x SSDs in RAID there if you wanted.

Since nobody seems to have any clue to what SATAe is: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7843/testing-sata-express-with-asus

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