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Seagate demonstrates next gen SATA

by Scott Bicheno on 10 March 2009, 10:27

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), Seagate (NASDAQ:STX)

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Well done, everyone

Leslie Sobon, VP of product marketing at AMD, said: "The new SATA 6Gb/second technology not only incorporates the best features of previous SATA generations but also includes new enhancements.

"This innovation enables AMD to continue to evolve its technology platforms and to develop low-cost designs that our technology partners can use to improve their own PC and laptop products."

It should be stressed, amid all this corporate self-congratulation, that SATA 6Gb/second (as they seem to be calling it, rather than SATA III or SATA 3.0 or Return of the SATA or whatever) was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) rather than any specific vendor. To be fair to Seagate and AMD, they do mention that in the press release.

 



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The reason it's called SATA 6Gb/s rather than SATA3 is that SATA2 doesn't (really) exist - simply SATA 3Gb/s (and a few other improvements, such as ClickConnect, that can selectively be applied).
SOrry if this is stupid but isnt sata 6 is a bit of a mute point?. Hard drives can only max at <300MB read/write(something like that?) so how is doubling the max threshold going to help?. Im probably thinking this the wrong way and its actually the speed of connection to the mobo which will affect speed of reads and writes, if this is the case please tell me :).
Think SSDs.

SSDs are generally RAID'ed flash chips, as these chips get cheaper and smaller, expect to see more of them RAIDed together, so that it appears as a single drive to the PC (already tweaked and optimized).

This will let you have the headroom!
What TheAnimus said :)

Presumably hard drive technology will make advances too, and (speaking as a tall person ;) ) too much headroom is preferable to too little, but I guess the main point is SSDs…
Port replication can make use of the fatter pipe.