Monday, March 2nd 2009
AMD and Seagate to Demo 6 Gbps SATA Interface
AMD and Seagate are set to demonstrate the new 6 Gbps SATA storage device interface. The companies will hold the demo today, in New Orleans, USA. Although not a player in the enterprise storage controller market, AMD is using this demo to exhibit the kind of technology that will go into its future chipset. The company already has plans to build chipset for its own current-generation Opteron processors.
Seagate, on the other hand, is a large player in the hard drive industry, enterprise storage included. The company notes that SATA 6 Gbps will benefit solid-state drives before they can significantly help conventional hard-drives. "Flash will take advantage [of the new interface], in applicable markets, sooner than you think," said Marc Noblitt, senior marketing I/O development manager for Seagate. "Six-gig is a perfect interface. OEMs tell us that they want to have the same SATA interface for flash as for a 1.8-inch rotating drive, so they can swap in a drive for flash, or vice versa." he added.
Source:
ExtremeTech
Seagate, on the other hand, is a large player in the hard drive industry, enterprise storage included. The company notes that SATA 6 Gbps will benefit solid-state drives before they can significantly help conventional hard-drives. "Flash will take advantage [of the new interface], in applicable markets, sooner than you think," said Marc Noblitt, senior marketing I/O development manager for Seagate. "Six-gig is a perfect interface. OEMs tell us that they want to have the same SATA interface for flash as for a 1.8-inch rotating drive, so they can swap in a drive for flash, or vice versa." he added.
10 Comments on AMD and Seagate to Demo 6 Gbps SATA Interface
AMD could use some fresh chipsets and 6Gbps will be nice for SSD/RAM-based storage, as well as external storage units.
As the article mentioned as well, AMD isn't a key player the in the hard drive market. It's just a tech demo that involves AMD. This doesn't really affect AMD directly as they just need to make the SATA controller and not the drives.
Woot for faster Mbps! USB 3.0 in 2010!!!
*thinks: flash drives, raid 0,... Drools...*
maybe vista could work properly on these... i noticed that it scratches around the disk a LOT
Oh wait, and THOUSANDS (Perhaps even to a few factors of 10 - I don't have any reliable figures) of other peoples drives did the same thing worldwide...
BUT they DID release a fix! That took out a few Thousand more drives worldwide...
I'ts going to be a while before i touch another ANYTHING that Seagate have had anything to do with.