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.

Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand ... 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 ...

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe): PCIe SSDs don't use the same SATA connection and instead use one of the ...

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 ...