
6 The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express
set and software interface. SATAe and flash-based storage provides a whole new level of creativity for
future designs of most any application, from mobile devices to Enterprise class storage arrays.
1.3.1 Introduction to SATA Express
SATA Express is purely PCIe when it comes to the physical connections and transport protocols, as
demonstrated in Figure 1.4.
There is no SATA link or transport layer, so there’s no translation overhead.
SATA Express is the standardization of PCIe as an interface for a client storage device.
○ Standards provide interoperability and interchangeability, meaning ...