SATA?

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The solid state disk is meant to connect via a USB3 connection. Connecting via USB2 slows it down significantly. I look forward to a future version of the Pine64 with USB3 ports.

Such future Pine64 would need a new SoC, because Allwinner A64 does not have native SATA and only supports USB 2.0. It is not possible for the Pine64 team to fix this in any other way.

But as far as a high performance storage media is concerned, a fast eMMC may be a usable alternative. The Allwinner A64 SoC has a pretty decent eMMC support according to the A64 manual.