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Why is SATA 3.0 [6 gbps] so SLOW?? [rant]

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  • SATA
  • PCI Express
  • Components
  • NAS / RAID
  • SSD
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October 2, 2014 2:07:31 PM

1. I think it's nuts that SATA is used commonly as the interface for SSDS since (for instance) two raid zero SSDS will vastly eclipse the 600 mb/s R/W transfer rate.

2. Why aren't more SSD vendors making PCI-e interfaced SSDs to harness all the extra bandwidth? Or motherboards with additional PCI-e slots marketed for this purpose?

The pink elephant in the room of everyone's elite PC build is that their 7,200 RPM 2 TB drive *is the bottleneck* on noticeable speed and access of programs, filesystem etc. (at least to me!) I don't understand why the industry for enthusiasts is tied to a now-outdated interface that is bottle-necking bandwidth? Or even more why Tom's hardware wants to argue that SATA 3 speeds and a single SSD are "fast enough" and that RAID-0ing SSDs isn't worth it. It isn't worth it because the interface is crap and makes it not worth it!

/rant

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October 2, 2014 3:18:37 PM

My pet peeve is of course when the title of a rant does not match up with the body of the rant, making me think the OP just cobbled together a post to win an awesome prize. :) 
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