14 DAY TRIAL // As far as old technologies go, legacy PCI qualifies for the title, but SATA II technology for storage support (SATA 3.0 Gbps) is still common, even though SATA III (SATA 6.0 Gbps) is quickly replacing it.
That seems to be enough for Intel though. The company has reportedly decided that, in addition to lacking PCI support altogether, the Z87 chipset, compatible with next-generation "Haswell" Core-series CPUs, will lack SATA II too.
That sounds worse than it is though. In fact, not having SATA II is actually an upgrade, as it means that only SATA III ports will be used, which are faster but support previous iterations of the standard too.
All things considered, the all-SATA III design is a fine upgrade alongside the SSD support for TRIM in RAID 0 storage configurations, as well as Rapid Storage Technology 12 and RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 capabilities.