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SATA Revision 3.0 #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 09:30 GMT

LOL,

Didn't take journo's long to drop the "Revision" did it?

<Nelson>HA Ha</nelson> #

By Lionel Baden Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:38 GMT

Points at USB 3.0

really? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 17:26 GMT

Is the bus the speed-limiting factor, or is it the speed at which the platter(s) spin?

Are we really looking at netbooks with 6gb/s drive throughput?

If you're looking at external drives, I thought the sata 1.0 sockets were low insertion force...

Personally, I'd rather have an external PCIe connector and leave the rest up to the drive caddy. Then you could add a drive or a graphics card to your notebook.

So.............. #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 29th May 2009 05:44 GMT

A faster connection magically makes the drive smaller and faster??????

Will be too slow by the time that it is out. #

By Richard Home Posted Friday 29th May 2009 11:10 GMT

If you look at the speed of the best SSD drives now, they are already saturating the 3gb/s SATA II bus and are well into SATA III territory already. By the time SATA III is out in volume 6gb/s will probably be too slow for the top-end SSD drives that will be on the market.

Time to think of something else.

RE: Will be too slow by the time that it is out. #

By Calum Posted Friday 29th May 2009 13:33 GMT

As far as standard single SSD drives go (RAID is a different matter), the best SSD read speed top out at about 260MB/s but on average are 200MB/s so there is still room and 600MB/s is not to sniffed at for a storage device interface. If you really want faster throughput then other solutions already exist such as RAM drives but they are not cheap in the slightest. I have not even touched upon the fact that the fastest SSDs are still not affordable for normal consumers.

Have to agree with other comments that making a slimline dvd drive or 1.8" in sata version is not going to change the overall size of these components.

Credit-card size earns points from me. #

By Another Anonymous Coward Posted Saturday 30th May 2009 08:19 GMT

Never mind transfer speeds or encryption.. the biggest problem I have with small external storage is that I'm constantly losing it.

It's never a case of "grab the usb stick and go", it's always "spend 5 minutes finding the usb stick then go".

For someone like me this would be great as an addition to the wallet, always good to cut down on pocket clutter too.