My understanding is that SATA 4 (presumably 12 Gbps) will not be released. However, it will have a place on motherboards for many years to come until optical drives and large capacity spinning disks are obsoleted.

SATA (Serial AT Attachment) [a][2] is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices.

Jan 26, 2023 · There is no SATA 4. You're maybe confused about Gen3 vs Gen4 NVMes. Gen4 is faster, so if you need faster then you go Gen4. Not much to it really. You can look up benchmarks.

Mar 31, 2021 · There are usually 4 PCIe lanes that all onboard devices share, SAS/SATA/Ethernet/M2 and whatnot. Just using all the M2 slots on the board can max that out. If you use additional drives via the onboard SATA controller, they might already be throttled or some ports might even be deactivated.

Feb 26, 2012 · I was wondering if the new PCIe 3.0 support from Intel might help SATA 4.0 along or at least SATA Express offering an "increase device interface speeds to 8Gb/s and 16Gb/s," quoted above.

May 2, 2015 · The number in SATA typically refers to the revision of SATA, or occasionally the speed (and hence revision) it it's written like this: SATA 3.0 Gbps Connect your SSD to SATA 3 whenever possible. EXTRAS:

Feb 23, 2024 · This device appears to have a SATA 4 slot. But after I searched SATA 4 on Google, most of the answers I got showed that SATA 4 has stopped development. However, SATA 4 appears in the BIOS of this device.

Jan 20, 2022 · We have upgraded to Nvme gen 4 as recently as 1 year ago with Intel cpus and chipsets, so why hasn't anybody talked about upgrading the sata ports on the motherboard to a new "sata 4" version?

Mar 27, 2013 · Some of the new SSDs are hitting the ceiling of SATA 3. I was wondering if and when SATA 4 will be out? To satisfy demand for performance and speed, do you think PCIe SSDs will become more...

May 17, 2022 · SATA has nine ground pins, due to much higher EMI inside a chassis than outside, where USB 4 can make do with four. However, most importantly, USB uses 128b/132b encoding and has done so since USB 3.1 (10 Gbps), where SATA is …