What comes after SATA3 and mSATA?

Are there any new standards being proposed (either finalized or proposed/in devlopment) for new connector types? We have PCI-e SSD's which has a ton of head room. That's really all I know of.

Just trying to get an idea of what we can look forward to in the coming years. Anyone have any insight?

PCIe SSDs are almost always a RAID card and a bunch of SSDs glued together.

I think he means the actual connections themselves (i.e. SATA, PCIe). I don't see anything about SATA4. mSATA is just a SATA connection and power in a small connector.

mSATA, SATA for solid-state drives in mobile computing devices, a PCI Express Mini Card-like connector which is electrically SATA

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@thid: You're right, maybe that's what he meant, but I just wanted to let him now that there was no native PCIe SSD (without SATA somewhere).

I just found this: SATA Express

Ya, I am talking connectors themselves.

@Txus: That seems to be PCIe 1x speeds but still, that's a big improvement.

I remember seeing some new connector types from Intel I believe a month or two ago but I cannot seem to find any information on them. I believe they were mostly enterprise level solutions but that stuff eventually trickles down in some form. The option is usually at least there.

I was just comparing speeds of Sata3 vs PCIe 3.0 16x and the results are nuts. Sata3 = 6Gb/sec and PCIe 3.0 x16 = 768 Gb/sec. Kind of cool to think about a SSD with that much speed! Not sure what I would do with it aside from benchmarking but it's really cool to think of the possibilities.

There is SATA Express and SFF-8639.