Assocaite report that to the end of this year in SATA 3.2 specification will be offered a SATA Express standard, which concern the use of PCI Express bus to work directly with SSDs.
SATA Express will use software that supports Serial ATA. The transmission of information will use one or two PCI Express versions 2.0 or 3.0 interface and ensure that the data transmission speed up to 8 Gb / s or 16 Gb / s, respectively. Leading SATA-IO specialist, said that the system with support for PCI Express 3.0 will proliferate in the coming months.
Processors with built-in PCI Express can directly communicate with SSDs, this will reduce the latency . It is assumed that SATA Express interface will require a new connector. Of course, the interface SATA-600 in the market will not disappear. For the server segment will be developed a interface that combines SCSI protocol and PCI Express, but this is not going to happen before the second half of next year.