In order to meet the demands for Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX users with high storage needs and fill the lack of SATA ports, SilverStone created ECS07, a hardware-based SATA 6G Non-RAID M.2 PCIe expansion card. ECS07 offers expansion of up to 5 SATA Gen3 ports, capable of reaching 1700MB/s. Unlike the general SATA hard drive expansion cards that utilizes PCIe slot, ECS07 utilizes M.2 interface, allowing the motherboard to retain the flexibility of the PCIe slot, while maximizing the expansion capacity of the motherboard hard drive storage.