Seagate launches world's first SATA 6Gb/s drive

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited September 2009 in Science & Tech
Seagate launches world's first SATA 6Gb/s drive

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  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    someday we will have actual 6Gb/s throughput, yes sir :rolleyes:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Give me 2 quick SSDs and I could easily give SATA6 some trouble.
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2009
    I didn't even know there was a new SATA link format out.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    Give me 2 quick SSDs and I could easily give SATA6 some trouble.

    750MB/s sustained transfer rate?
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Why oh why 2Tb. OS drives people.... fast, reasonably priced, smallish OS drives.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I have to wonder if there will be any real world improvement?
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Data coming out of cache won't saturate 6Gb/s, but will be faster than 3Gb/s. I'd say there will definitely be some real world improvement, especially when we see 750GB and 1TB per platter in the near future.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Zuntar wrote:
    Why oh why 2Tb. OS drives people.... fast, reasonably priced, smallish OS drives.

    Partitions?
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I don't do partitions. I subscribe to Mt_goat's recommendation ( last paragraph ).;)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    That recommendation only applies if the system is using the swap file, and even then the performance impact is negligible. Most common wisdom about mechanical disks falls apart in the presence of high memory capacity.
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