![]() ![]() To get around this, the quickest drives have turned to PCI Express, which offers plenty of internal bandwidth. Hard-drive manufacturers have dealt with the limitations of SATA for several years already, as the best drives are quite able to saturate a single connection. Available in capacities between 400GB and 1.2TB, and as either a PCIe add-in card or 2.5″ drive, Intel hopes the 750 will open up a new world of hard drive performance, just as the company’s X18-M and X25-M did for SATA solid state drives more than a half-decade ago. Now, though, the chipmaker has released a consumer version: the 750 Series. Intel introduced the first NVMe drives last year, but they targeted the enterprise market and, more specifically, data centers. That standard is called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). Fortunately the major players in the hard drive industry were aware of this problem, and they sat down to create an entirely new standard that can handle the potential for future SSDs. The pace of progress has been so rapid that the SATA interface traditionally used to connect hard drives has become a bottleneck for many SSDs, despite the introduction of SATA 3.0, also known as SATA 6Gbps, in 2009. ![]() Today’s best SATA drives are several times quicker than their predecessors and enjoy better, more stable drivers. Advancements in controller technology and memory production have made the drives faster, more durable and more affordable by a huge margin. Solid-state drives have improved at breakneck speed since they first gained traction in the consumer space about five years ago. ![]()
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