ASUS First in World to Unleash Full SATA Express Performance

Since the Z87 Deluxe/SATA Express ASUS has been working extensively with Intel and SATA Express SSD chipset manufacturers in developing compatibility and performance reliability for the new standard. As the only motherboard company to commit so early and positively, the fruits of this labor are now beginning to ripen. Today ASUS is announcing that the joint BIOS development teams have yielded a breakthrough in design, and will 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. OK, it's not sexy news like seeing a brand new ROG motherboard, but it's still extremely important to know that not every motherboard is made the same: having the physical connector is only a small part of the equation. SATA Express is the next generation SSD standard that jumps performance to 10Gbps, over current SATA III's 6Gbps. This equates to real world sequential read/write speeds of up to 745/809MB/s on upcoming ASUS motherboards with SATA Express, which is roughly around 40-50% greater performance over top performing SATA III SSDs. you can read more about it in our SSD technology guide before you plan your 2014 upgrade! Hit the PR button below for the official info.