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SATA transfer speeds have stayed at 6Gb/s since 2008.2 According to the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), “there are no plans to extend SATA bandwidth beyond the current 6Gb/s transfer rate.”3 By contrast, the roadmap for SAS SSDs extends into 2029 and includes plans for faster speeds.4 IDC predicts that NVMe SSD revenues will continue to climb, making NVMe “the mainstream foundation technology for enterprise storage by 2020.”5
RM5 Series value SAS SSDs from KIOXIA offer a 12Gb/s connection, double that of enterprise SATA SSDs.6 CD5 data center NVMe SSDs, meanwhile, push transfer speeds to 32 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), boosting your data center’s ability to handle even more data.7 These drives from KIOXIA offer up to 7.68 TB of storage per drive, a PCIe® Gen3 x4 lane interface, and a 64-layer BiCS FLASH™ 3D TLC memory.8
2 SATA-IO, “New SATA Spec Will Double Data Transfer Speeds to 6 Gb/s,” accessed October 4, 2019, https://sata-io.org/system/files/ member-downloads/SATA_6Gb_Phy_PR_Finalv2.pdf.
3 SATA-IO, “SATA-IO Frequently Asked Questions,” accessed October 4, 2019, https://sata-io.org/sata-io-frequently-asked-questions..
4 SCSI Trade Association (STA), “Serial Attached SCSI Technology Roadmap,” accessed October 4, 2019, http://www.scsita.org/content/ library/serial_attached_scsi_technology_roadmap/.
5 Eric Burgener, “NVMe in Enterprise Storage Systems,” accessed October 4, 2019, https://www.flashmemorysummit.com/English/Collat- erals/Proceedings/2018/20180808_MRES-201B-1_Burgener.pdf.
6 KIOXIA, “Life After SATA,” accessed October 4, 2019, https://business.kioxia.com/en-us/ssd/life-after-sata.html#value-sas..
7 KIOXIA, “Life After SATA.”
8 KIOXIA, “CD5 Series Data Center SSD,” accessed October 4, 2019, https://business.kioxia.com/en-us/ssd/data-center-ssd/cd5.html.