The Intel Solid-State drive data center family for PCIe brings extreme data throughput directly to Intel Xeon processors with up to six times faster data transfer speed than 6 Gbps SAS/SATA SSDs. The performance of a single drive from the Intel SSD data center family for PCIe, specifically the Intel Solid-State drive data center P3700 series (460K iops), can replace the performance of 7 SATA SSDs aggregated through a host bus adapter (HBA).