Wednesday, January 7th 2009
6 Gbps SATA Drives Could Arrive as Early as Q2 2009
According to reports by TechConnect Magazine, the third generation of the SATA interface could be introduced as early as the second quarter of this year. The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), who have developed the technology, are expected to finalize specifications, with the launch of products sporting the new interface at the same time. The first backwards compatible drives to feature the new interface are expected to be solid state drives (SSD), followed by hard disk drives (HDD) shortly after. The main advancement is doubling the bandwidth from 3Gbps to 6Gbps, but until the official announcement of the final specifications are released, we will not know what further changes are in store.
Source:
TechConnect
32 Comments on 6 Gbps SATA Drives Could Arrive as Early as Q2 2009
We also have no boards to support such technology yet and being the x58 was just released, I think we are a little off from having it anyways. It will be good as we continue to need faster drives, comparatively speaking drives have gotten much larger than faster.
Notice how a Raptor 10k Sata1 loses in burst speeds to a decent 7200rpm Sata2 drive, even though the speeds are not breaking the 1.5Gb/s rate.
www.serialata.org/6gbnamingguidelines.asp
Looks like its most likely real.
For SATA connections 1.5Gb/s != 187.5MB/s or 3.0Gb/s != 375MB/s.
Read the table here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SATA_3_Gbit.2Fs
8b10b encoding I believe means there is some redundancy data in the transmission.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8B10B
Sata 1 = 1.5Gb = 150MB/s
Sata 2 = 3Gb = 300MB/s
These are the official numbers, i'm sure you've seen 'sata 150' and 'sata 300'
oh and FYI, sata 3.0 is this 6Gb connection, not sata II (3Gb)