faster hdd/sdd soon

[askeggs]

as the title says, hdd/sdd will soon use the new SATA 3.0 spec :eek:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/27/sata_revision_3_0/

it will in effect make hdd/ssd twice as fast.

[Matt]

It's about time the old HD always seems to lag behind in development.

These will likely require new MB and heaven knows what else though.

[Azuricate]

Sounds very nice, let's hope they don't cost too much so we mortals can afford them ;). And as Matt wrote we probably will have to buy a new MB to use them... oh the downside of technology

[neil@kobalt]

Why they couldn't just call it SATA 3 instead of SATA Revision 3.0 I don't understand, everyone will refer to it as SATA 3!

It's a little misleading unfortunately, not to ruin the party but it won't make all new HDDs faster. SATA 2 doubled the transfer rate of the interface but it's much faster than any standard HDD is capable of already, upping it to 6Gb/s.

1Gb = 1000Mb = 125MB

Gb = Gigabit
Mb = Megabit
MB = Megabyte

So 6Gb/s interface = 750MB/s which is three times the max read of a Vertex SSD. It will futureproof new flash bases HDDs but won't make mechanical drives any faster:(

[Azuricate]

Yeah it's still pretty nice though.
I wonder when this will be avaible "to the public" i.e when companies start selling Mobo's supporting SATA Revision 3.0 ... I agree with you Neil, it's so stupid putting Revision in there, especially if people get annoyed when you write SATA 3, why not just call it SATA 3 for simplicity?