Storage technology with NAND media is outgrowing the bandwidth limitations of the SATA bus. New high performance Storage solutions will connect directly to the PCIe bus for revolutionary performance improvements. These components will be available in a variety of form factors and performance levels, designed specifically for certain market segments, and ultimately the costs will continue to decline as the technology evolves.

The HP Z Turbo Drive features a PCIe connected SSD, and this enables performance levels greater than 1GB/s. This performance is available at a price that is at parity with today's comparable SATA SSDs. This will enable the highest price/performance ratio for client grade SSDs.

The HP Z Turbo Drive will be supported on desktop platforms of HP Z Workstations. It will support storage configurations as a Boot device and as a Data device. The performance gains are significant when connecting to the PCIe bus. The sequential read and write performance is roughly twice as fast as today's SATA SSD products.