Thats more like it. I guess I'll be getting a new PC about the time thats released 😀

i will be watching this to see how it evolves wonder how many lane this will support from the start

Am I the only one that's not overly happy with SATA-IO and their lack of future proofing? 1GB/s is not even double the current bandwidth maximum of SATA3. SATA3 was already being saturated by single SSD's on sequential read and write shortly after it's implementation. Granted, that's not Random I/O, but the point is the SSD tech available today seems to be, at least, somewhat limited by the interface. I only see the same thing repeating itself with the implementation of SATA(4?) I'd be much happier to see the interface have a max throughput of something like 4GB/s, where SSD tech would take a couple years before it could really begin coming close to saturating the bus. Just my 2 cents, perhaps my thinking is flawed on this, however? EDIT: D'oh, I must've missed the part where it says 'per lane'. This actually sounds pretty promising now. Like what was said previously, I would like to know how many lanes can be dedicated to this?

Am I the only one that's not overly happy with SATA-IO and their lack of future proofing? 1GB/s is not even double the current bandwidth maximum of SATA3. SATA3 was already being saturated by single SSD's on sequential read and write shortly after it's implementation. Granted, that's not Random I/O, but the point is the SSD tech available today seems to be, at least, somewhat limited by the interface. I only see the same thing repeating itself with the implementation of SATA(4?) I'd be much happier to see the interface have a max throughput of something like 4GB/s, where SSD tech would take a couple years before it could really begin coming close to saturating the bus. Just my 2 cents, perhaps my thinking is flawed on this, however? EDIT: D'oh, I must've missed the part where it says 'per lane'. This actually sounds pretty promising now. Like what was said previously, I would like to know how many lanes can be dedicated to this?

if you want more speed you can already use ramdisks or ssds that have a pcie interface. the advantage of using pcie lanes for harddisks as a standard is removing the need for current s-ata2/3 controllers and the interface surrounding them. ALOT of pcie lanes are unused in current generation systems. the only way to realy saturate the pcie lanes is to run sli/xfire and jam up every single place you can plug in anything on your board. most ppl use 8/16 at most and have a huge amount of lanes that are just sitting there waiting for something to happen. sata was a very neat development that got us all away from the ide interface. most ppl couldnt afford scsi at the time of the big ide boom. now that harddisks are growing in size and also in speed, it is a step in the right direction.

This is the MAIN reason why i invested in a PCI-E Solid State Drive. PCE-E SSD I hope SATA 4 will be something like intel Thunderbolt, and not just a stupid speed bump!