AMD and Seagate to show off 6Gbps SATA
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... AMD and Seagate announced they'll be showing off the next-generation 6 Gbit/s SATA interface at an event in New Orleans. SATA III will offer a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 750MB/s, double as much as SATA II's 375MB/s. The new SATA spec may seem unnecessarily at the moment, but Seagate claims flash-based drives will take advantage of it much sooner than you think. ...
AMD and Seagate To Demo 6GB SATA
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Extremetech reports that AMD and Seagate will demo 6GB SATA next week. Here is the scoop. AMD and Seagate will demonstrate a next-generation 6-Gbit/s SATA interface Monday in New Orleans, the companies said.
Neither company is announcing products based on the technology yet, Seagate executives said. The 6-Gbit/s SATA technology will be part of a future AMD south bridge chip, and may appear in solid-state-disc drives before it becomes part of a conventional hard drive.
The target markets will be gaming PCs and servers, executives said.
AMD and Seagate to Demo 6 Gbps SATA Interface
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... will benefit solid-state drives before they can significantly help conventional hard-drives. "Flash will take advantage [of the new interface], in applicable markets, sooner than you think," said Marc Noblitt, senior marketing I/O development manager for Seagate. "Six-gig is a perfect interface. OEMs tell us that they want to have the same SATA interface for flash as for a 1.8-inch rotating drive, so they can swap in a drive for flash, or vice versa." he added.
Source: ExtremeTech
AMD, Seagate Demonstrate 6-Gbit/s SATA interface
VR-Zone Articles —
Extremetech reports that AMD and Seagate will demonstrate a next-generation 6-Gbit/s SATA interface on Monday. Here are some of the interesting features that the new interface will bring Offering twice as much bandwidth as the existing SATA interface, the 6.0-Gbit/s also contains improved streaming characteristics that 3.0-Gbit/s drives with Native Command Queuing lacked. In addition, a new power management specifcation allows the always-on SATA interface to power on and off, like older Parallel ATA drives. Seagate has also mentioned that the new 6-Gbit/s interface is needed ...


