What interface is a solid-state drive?

We know that the current solid-state drive is the fastest speed, nearly twice times as fast as the mechanical hard drive we are familiar with. In the whole DIY computer hardware in the replacement of the hard disk development speed can be said to be very slow, far less than other hardware replacement speed, which depends mainly on the structure of traditional hard disk, development has been close to the peak, it is difficult to speed up. This has also led to the traditional mechanical hard disk in the computer also fade bottlenecks, affecting the computer to upgrade to high-speed. However, with better performance of the new solid-state hard disk appears, solid-state hard drive will be expected to break the traditional hard drive speed bottleneck, but the solid state drive is also in the initial stage of development, in terms of capacity is still insufficient, nonsense not to say, back to the point of this article, then solid-state hard disk is what interface

　　What interface is a solid-state drive?

In fact, solid-state hard disk has several interfaces, according to the different applications of solid-state hard disk generally have different interfaces. Solid-state hard disk compared with traditional mechanical hard disk, interface specifications are more easily confused by the initial users, the following is described below:

　　Mainstream common--sata interface

SATA interface is no longer a new technology, since 2001 SATA 1.0 to the current SATA2.0 and SATA3.0, has made SATA as the current solid-state hard disk main interface. In terms of current usage, SATA2.0 users are still the most, which is mainly affected by the PC interface, but the current market SATA3.0 products, most of which can be backward-compatible 2.0.

SATA interface

SATA interface solid-state drives, mostly used in lieu of mechanical hard drives, our desktop upgrades are mainly used for this type of interface. With the introduction of SATA 2.0 and 3.0, the transmission rate of speed growth to 300 and 600mb/s, this is the earliest Pata interface, that is, the IDE interface can not be compared.

Although the current SATA interface SSD to the mainstream SATA 2.0, SATA 3.0 accounted for a low, but its 600MB per second transmission rate, destined to become SSDs future interface trends.

　　Server class more--pci-e interface

Pci-e interface

PCI-E is mainly used in embedded applications compared with the SATA interfaces that are more accessible to everyone. Although SSD compared with the mechanical hard disk, using physical equipment to replace the low speed of mechanical equipment, but in the process of performance improvement, solid-state hard disk is again subject to physical dimensions and data interface restrictions. The PCI-E interface has more bandwidth than SATA, allowing for further performance and capacity improvements, giving full play to the potential of solid-state drives.

Although there are many PCI-E interface motherboards on the market, but the impact of price and ease of use, PCI-E interface SSD is mostly used on the server. The transfer rate of PCIe 2.0 is promoted from PCIe 1.0 's one-way 250mb/s to 500MB/S,PCI 3.0 to 750mb/s, which is more exciting than SATA.

According to the x16 specification of high order display adapter, PCIe 2.0 can reach one-way 8gb/s, PCIe 3.0 can reach one-way 12gb/s transmission rate. Very suitable for professional personnel use.

　　MAC Special--lif Interface SSD

If you are using an Apple brand, to use a solid-state drive, the first choice is the Lif interface and then consider the price and capacity issues, do not say more. The current market on the Lif interface SSD mainly to the source branch products, other brands to dismantle the majority of goods, market circulation less.

　　Old PC upgrade--1.8 inch ZIF interface SSD

notebook computer manufacturers to use a large number of ZIF interface, mainly to 1.8-inch products, the current application of the crowd is not much, mainly suitable for the old computer upgrades.

　　Non-mainstream small ssd--msata interface

With the rise of tablets, as well as the popularity of netbook, printers and other products, Intel, creative and other manufacturers will be future SSD applications, targeting tablet computers, engineering, discipline and other fields.

1.8 inch Ssd--msata Embedded SSD

mSATA interface solid-state drives typically refer to small, SSD modules that are different from traditional 2.5-inch or 1.8-inch SSD products. Architecture design similar to the embedded system DOM type, creative also launched mSATA and Half-slim Super Super Sata and other two SSD products. The mSATA SSD size is 29.85 mm x 50.8 mm x 3.5 mm, the volume is the traditional 2.5-inch SSD 12 1, the weight is 7 1, the capacity includes 32GB and 64GB two sections.

Ssd--msata interface with the same size as a business card

This kind of interface of solid-state hard disk, mainly serve in the embedded memory solution, mainly used in ultra-thin system products, customers and product requirements to select applications. Simply put, the mSATA interface SSD is a built-in card, rather than the form of solid-state drives that we normally see, you can assemble them according to your needs.

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