Asus and Intel today announced a new technology that should drastically increase transfer speed of SATA Express devices such as SSDs. According to the companies they've discovered a BIOS structure that unleashes the true full potential of the latest SATA Express interface standard on future Asus motherboards.
Following the CES 2014 debut of the Asus Z87-Deluxe/SATA Express concept motherboard, Asus and Intel continued working together to ensure that users enjoy the full performance of the SATA Express interface and SATA Express components.
The joint research effort means that Asus is the first motherboard manufacturer in the world to discover and implement a technology that is critical for SATA Express to perform at its best, the Separate Reference Clock with Independent Spread Spectrum Clocking Architecture, or SRIS for short.
Asus developed Hyper Express, an exclusive 2.5-inch SATA Express external enclosure. This invention is a concept device that accommodates two mSATA devices and enabled Asus engineers to measure SATA Express interface design, allowing them to finely engineer new motherboard designs to unleash the new standard’s full speed.
In order to deliver the full potential of SATA Express, the host motherboard must contain the SRIS architecture in the BIOS. It ensures that the crucial timings between the high-speed SATA Express device and the motherboard are kept precisely in tune. Buyers of future Asus motherboards should be able to see performance of sequential read/write speeds of up to 745/809MB/s.
