Asus Displays its Z87-Deluxe/SATA Express Motherboard
Asus is displaying its Z87-Deluxe/SATA Express motherboard at CES 2014.
Along with other products that Asus is demonstrating at CES 2014, the Z87-Deluxe/SATA Express motherboard is set to be the first to feature the SATA-Express standard. It is particularly impressive considering that it seems that the SATA-Express won't even be standard on the next-generation Z97-Express chipset.
The SATA-Express connector aboard the motherboard will allow for transfer rates of up to 1000 MB/s. The SATA-Express connector is different from the older SATA connector, though.
Up until now, there haven't been any SATA-Express drives on the market, so for testing it is likely Asus' 'Runway' creation.

We have yet to hear when the Z87-Deluxe/SATA Express will come to the market.
Did you test it as a non-Boot drive? I would assume PCIe based storage would be useful for cache and scratch disks.
Did you test it as a non-Boot drive? I would assume PCIe based storage would be useful for cache and scratch disks.
This was as a OS vs OS drive. Transfer wise, yes it was faster but using it as a OS drive did not feel much faster or smoother and that is because the IOPS on SSDs is already insanely high.
It is much akin to current memory speeds and how for most applications quad channel is overkill as is anything above DDR3 1600MHz right now because 20GB/s is already more than enough for current applications. But in applications that can utilize that bandwidth, it excels much like transfer of files will excel on SATAe and quad channel RAM.
I am all for new technology though. I know there will be a point where it will be beneficial. Its much like 4GB of RAM. On XP, it was pointless to have much more than 1GB, 2GB was even considered overkill. But in 7 4GB is what you want minimum and 8GB is the current sweet spot.