A hardware interface for SATA drives using two lanes of PCI Express (PCIe) in order to increase the transfer rate over regular SATA. Motherboards came out in 2014, but few drives materialized.

SATA drives are the larger, 2.5-inch drives that most resemble classic laptop hard drives. NVMe or Non-Volatile Memory Host Express, on the other hand, is the logical interface specification that ...

While SATA was the standard for many years, eventually it created a bottleneck for faster storage. PCI Express provides a faster interface speed than SATA and it's slowly replacing it as the new ...

SAS drives require an adapter to hook up to a SATA controller (see SATA and SATA Express). SAS is a point-to-point architecture that uses a controller (host bus adapter) with two full-duplex ...