![]() For the most part, client storage is a commodity and if you don't make the NAND and controller going into an SSD you're not making a ton of money selling drives to end users. Manufacturers in the consumer SSD space are attracted to PCIe solutions simply because margins are higher. However the estimated price tag on the P320h could be in the $5000 - $10000 range depending on capacity. Recently Micron announced such a thing: the P320h. The holy grail is a native PCIe solution. Rather than force OEMs into putting yet another very high bandwidth bus on the motherboard, SSD vendors everywhere (Intel included) turn their attention to PCIe as a solution to the problem. As SandForce has already demonstrated with the right dataset a single SSD can nearly saturate the 6Gbps SATA bus. Although consumer SSDs are far from a mature technology, PCIe SSDs are even further behind on the growth curve.
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