On 09.08.2011 17:46, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > single-lane PCI-e is still only gigabit, phil, and SATA-II is 3.0 > gb/s. so it still really doesn't cut the mustard. you'd need a 4x > PCI-e to meet the SATA-II specification There are many PCIe SATA controllers with x1 slot - Sil3132 based for example. And even 1Gb/s gives you ~100MB/s which is more then most of ARM SoCs can achieve with storage.