Intel’s storage czar has a thing or two to say about the future of drive technology, naturally, but it’s not all party line. PCWorld recently sat down with Bill Leszinske, who heads Intel’s NVM (non-volatile memory) Solutions Group, to get his take on interfaces, hard drives versus solid-state drives, and when storage and RAM will merge.
SATA EXPRESS WHO?
Remember the SATA Express port? It arose in 2013, intended as an evolution of the slower SATA interface. While some systems began supporting the interface, however, drives for it never appeared—at least none we’ve ever seen. SSD performance also quickly eclipsed the capabilities of SATA Express.
SATA Express may never officially have been declared dead, but to Intel’s drive division, at least, it is. “I’m not planning to offer SSDs in…