Seagate throttles up to 6 Gbps throughput, with some help from AMD

Slated to start showing up in products later this year, the faster PC storage interface will support video, graphics, and gaming applications.
By Jacqueline Emigh March 9, 2009

At the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans today, Seagate and AMD are delivering the world's first public demo of 6 gigabit-per-second Serial ATA, an ultra-speedy interface between the host bus adapters used in PCs and storage drives such as hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and optical devices. A replacement for older and slower ATA technology, Serial ATA supported throughput of 1.5 Gbps in its first generation and operates at 3 Gbps in much of the hardware sold today, said Mark Noblitt, Seagate's senior marketing manager for I/O (input/output) development, in an interview with Betanews. "Customers want bigger drives to store more data, [and] more data needs a faster I/O," according to Noblitt. The Seagate exec foresees strong demand for 6 Gbps Serial ATA across both low-end servers and high-end PCs for applications such as streaming video graphics, and gaming.

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