Not very common at the time but they did exist! Here's a review of one from 2012: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6124/the-intel-ssd-910-review/4 http://www.anand

Not very common at the time but they did exist! Here's a review of one from 2012: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6124/the-intel-ssd-910-review/4 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6124/the-intel-ssd-910-review/... The SATA III bottleneck is still common today, but Mac laptops, at least, have sported SSDs that can do ~1GByte/sec for a couple of revisions now. I think they're PCI Express too.