Read more.Hard drive maker teams up with AMD for first public demonstration of the new 6Gb/s interface.
Read more.Hard drive maker teams up with AMD for first public demonstration of the new 6Gb/s interface.
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!
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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...
I've also heard that quite a few SATA II controllers can't actually deliver the 300MB/s as quoted - so in theory this should provide peace of mind for those with speedy, non-RAIDed SSDs
Even if platter based HDD's aren't capable of maxing out a 6 Gb/s link, even the slowest HDD would still see benefits in areas like access times.
They are putting 2X as much data over the line using the same number of physical connectors, in other words a single bit travels to the drive or back in half the time.
Lower latencies between two otherwise identical sticks results in superior performance. Same idea.
PS: I think you meant MOOT point, unless you're suggesting it's a point no one could hear.
Sorry about that. I was half asleep at the time and didn't mean to imply that they had sped up electricity. (I even forgot to include the word RAM, and now it sounds like I was talking about rubbing two sticks together)
I meant the controllers, not the cable.
The controllers to either side of the cable have to process and execute twice the data in the same amount of time. All I could think to get across at the time was "6 Gbps = 3 Gb/ half second."
Sorry if my last post wasn't entirely coherent.
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