SATA 3.0, 6gb/s

[clusta]

Whats happening about the sata 3.0 ,6gb/s and the motherboard's on it?

 

[Elixer]

They will be out in March/April '10, if not sooner.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I saw some drives that are "3G" on tigerdirect does this mean sata 3.0 or is that just a way of saying 3Gps and hope people think it's sata 3.0?

Thing is, can the mechanics of a typical drive even keep up with these speeds?

 

[sawtx]

You can get motherboards right now with SATA III, newegg has 16 (14 for Intel and 2 for AMD). Newegg also has the Seagate SATA III 2TB HDD that was previewed here.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3668

 

[ESQ]

Fry's has an Intel i5 chip and Gigabyte mb with sata3 and usb3 on sale in their Friday ad--god 'til next Thursday.

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3234

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128410&Tpk=N82E16813128410

 

[faxon]

Fry's has an Intel i5 chip and Gigabyte mb with sata3 and usb3 on sale in their Friday ad--god 'til next Thursday.

palo alto is almost OOS on the i5 cpus just FYI

 

[clusta]

yea but Asus P7P55D-E & Gigabyte GA-P55A, series is released and already out with the sata3 6gb/s and the usb 3.0 but what about that unsupported things?

well i was read the review here but how is faster or the same speed the Sata II thn the Sata3 6gb/s

 

[Blain]

I don't care about SATA 3.0 (6Gbps)...
I want USB 3.0 cards & devices! :awe:

 

[clusta]

I don't care about SATA 3.0 (6Gbps)...




I want USB 3.0 cards & devices! :awe:

I don't care about SATA 3.0

Its faster

I want USB 3.0 cards & devices! :awe:

hehe

 

[Blain]

USB 3.0 will open up a whole new world of connectivity.

 

[Griswold]

Thing is, can the mechanics of a typical drive even keep up with these speeds?

It doesnt have to keep up, it just doesnt use the bandwith. You could use a SATA port multiplier and hook up several drives on one SATA channel to saturate the bandwith. But the only benefit would be to load your machine up with a silly number of drives while effectively using the bandwith at your hands.

Other than that, SATA 6Gb/s is just marketing yip-yap for now and quite some time to come.

 

[cbn]

Thing is, can the mechanics of a typical drive even keep up with these speeds?

The OCZ Colossus supposedly is capable of using all the bandwidth of SATA III if the internal raid controller is changed. Since SATA 3 is now out via adapter cards I hope they are able to make the improvement (at least on select models).

 

[Red Squirrel]

It doesnt have to keep up, it just doesnt use the bandwith. You could use a SATA port multiplier and hook up several drives on one SATA channel to saturate the bandwith. But the only benefit would be to load your machine up with a silly number of drives while effectively using the bandwith at your hands.

Other than that, SATA 6Gb/s is just marketing yip-yap for now and quite some time to come.

Oh did not know you could do this, so it's kinda like IDE where you can put 2 drives on one cable?

 

[Rubycon]

Oh did not know you could do this, so it's kinda like IDE where you can put 2 drives on one cable?

No it's not like that. ONE drive per channel. Expanders allow a single cable from a host as an attachment point for more than one device. It's always one device per cable, however.