Seagate & AMD demo 6Gb/s SATA spec

Robert Hallock (Thrax)

March 10, 2009 11:30 AM ET in News, , , , , , ,

Tentatively called SATA3, AMD and Seagate took time on Monday to demonstrate the first public iteration of the new SATA spec that offers transfer rates up to 600MB/s.

The new specification is in the final phase of development and should offer compliant drives by year’s end. On the platform front, AMD has pledged chipset support in a revision to their newest SB750 logic.

Like all other specifications in the ATA family, the entire SATA3 ecosystem will be backwards-compatible with SATA-150 and SATA-300 devices and controllers.

Developers, deve-- er, marketing, marketing, marketing!

Developers, deve-- er, marketing, marketing, marketing!

Reality check: A faster bus speed is not going to make your miserably slow mechanical drive any faster. A solid-state disk is the ticket to ride on this superhighway.

4 Comments:

  1. DrLiam
    10 Mar '09, 5:51 pm

    This speedometer shown is just hilarious... SATA3?!?! OMG!! FULL SPEED!!!!!!!!

    ... :P

  2. Snarkasm
    10 Mar '09, 5:52 pm

    Nothing will ever go faster. Look at it - it's already redlining.

  3. MAGIC
    11 Mar '09, 4:05 am

    Unless you could slap a hood scoop and a huge exhaust tip on it, then it would go faster.

  4. Leonardo
    11 Mar '09, 6:37 am

    That's it, we've discovered the next marketing gimmick. The drive needs, it needs...a wing and big letters splashed on it - "G.A.M.E.R Drivez XXQQ+ Super Rebellion Hero Gold." They can then remove the '+' from the label, put it on older generation drives, and increase the prices by 25%. And it would sell.

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