Western Digital introduced the first PCI Express hard drives

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Η Western Digital presented in the technology exhibition Computex 2014 a hard drive that is connected to the motherboard via PCI Express.

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Using the protocol SATA Express, WD connected a hard drive to SATA Express interface At PCI Express port of the parent.

The SATA Express communication protocol, supported by motherboards with chipset of the 9 series such as Intel Z97.

This new protocol achieves speeds greater than SATA III at 6Gb / s, while Asus has achieved through SRIS to trigger performance in 800MB / s reading data.

What WD is doing is exploitation of the PCI Express sockets of motherboards that usually stay unexploited on a PC, while the need for storage space is a given.

Source: e-pcmag.gr


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