SSDs are all the rage these days.
ARG!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, not that kind of rage.
Having transitioned from a niche item for tech enthusiasts
to a mainstream device that anyone can install to improve the responsiveness of his or her computer.
But there's a problem! Nearly any SSD will give you a noticeable performance
boost over a mechanical hard drive, but as customers demand even faster and larger drives,
manufacturers need to re-evaluate not only the design of the SSDs themselves, but also
how they are CONNECTED to a system's motherboard!
Now, the most widespread interface for connecting
SSDs is called Serial ATA, or "SATA." SATA has been around for a while now - we
first saw it hit the scene in 2003 - and since then, SATA has basically gotten faster as
the drives themselves has gotten faster. It started at 150 megabytes per second,
and has since reached 600 megabytes per second.
But for years now, SSDs have been available that can completely saturate
a SATA 3 connection when transferring data, so is it truly the best way to connect
a storage device to your PC anymore?
Especially a very high speed one?
NO.. It was clear something had to be done, and engineers began to look beyond the
traditional - attach drives to the motherboard with cables - paradigm and looked at using an
even faster interconnect! What they found was PCI Express, a general-purpose connection
that is power efficient, and already being used for super-quick links to just about anything,
graphics cards, high speed networking, and yes, even storage!
PCI express SSDs plug into an expansion slot on your motherboard
that provides both data and power connections rather
than being installed in a 2.5-inch bay in your case with separate cables for each and
can reach absolutely insane speeds; PCIe 3.0 can hit nearly 1 gigabyte per second on a single lane!
If you have a PCIe SSD, this kind of fast access to system storage can
do all kinds of things - improve loading time for programs, decrease boot time,
increase overall system responsiveness, enable smoother previewing of very I/O heavy content in realtime and much more.
But while it's super cool, not everyone NEEDS a PCI express SSD and regardless
of which direction you'd like to go when picking a storage solution for your shiny new rig,
HyperX has SSDs that will fit both your needs and your budget.
Their HyperX Savage line of SATA SSDs offers fantastic performance,
with sequential read and write speeds of up to 560 and 530 megabytes per second
at an affordable price point.
Did you notice, that's really close to that 600 megabyte per second thing I was talking about before?
So, if you tre ready to take the plunge for PCIe, then you need look no further than the HyperX Predator,
which can hit speeds of 1400 megabytes per second read and 1000 megabytes per second write,
It also comes with a low-profile bracket to fit comfortably into any system.
So, thanks for checking out this little video on SATA vs. PCI Express.
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