Wednesday, May 27th 2009
Serial ATA Organization Makes SATA 3.0 Revision Official
The Serial ATA International Organization today, made the third-generation SATA interface official. The new interface provides a 6 Gbps high-speed serial data connection between the system and most of today's data storage devices such as hard drives, solid-state drives, optical drives, and enterprise tape drives. The interface also provides connectivity to external storage devices in its eSATA port variant. It is 100% backwards compatible with devices that support the SATA 150 MB/s and SATA II 300 MB/s standards.
The organization listed some of the standard's key enhancements, as follows:
Source:
HardwareZone
The organization listed some of the standard's key enhancements, as follows:
- A new Native Command Queuing (NCQ) streaming command to enable isochronous data transfers for bandwidth-hungry audio and video applications
- An NCQ Management feature that helps optimize performance by enabling host processing and management of outstanding NCQ commands
- Improved power management capabilities
- A small Low Insertion Force (LIF) connector for more compact 1.8-inch storage devices
- A connector designed to accommodate 7mm optical disk drives for thinner and lighter notebooks
- Alignment with the INCITS ATA8-ACS standard
21 Comments on Serial ATA Organization Makes SATA 3.0 Revision Official
I don't want to buy any mobos until this is out:D
When is it due? will I5 boards support it?
Would also like to see more Matrix configurations (Ex: 6-drive RAID-10/5) in case anyone from Intel was here :)
its going to take until christmas before we start seeing SATA III on mobos, and at least until mid next year before many of us have it here on TPU. most people only upgrade mobos once every 2-3 years, unless they change sockets.