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Everything You Need to Know about SATA 6Gb/sec

 

Published 3/9/2009 by Nathan Edwards at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Today, hard drive manufacturer Seagate and chip manufacturer AMD unveil the first tech demo of Serial ATA Revision 3.0 , which boasts transfer rates of up to six gigabits per second, twice the speed of the current SATA spec. The specification, which was announced by the Serial ATA International Organization last August, will appear in hardware starting later this year. SATA 6Gb/s comes several years before Seagate estimates it will be needed for standard hard drives, but, as we reported last year , several current-gen SSDs are already bumping against the 3Gb/s limit of the current spec. read more (link)

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