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Serial ATA 3.0 is go, the Sata-IO industry body announced yesterday. Sata 3.0 doubles the bus' current peak bandwidth to 6Gb/s, improves its power-conservation capabilities and upgrades the standard's Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology to add streaming and better command management, all designed to make it easier to get …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    SATA Revision 3.0

    LOL,

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

  2. Lionel Baden

    <Nelson>HA Ha</nelson>

    Points at USB 3.0

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    really?

    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.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Alert

    So..............

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

  5. Richard Home

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

    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.

  6. Calum

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

    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.

  7. Another Anonymous Coward

    Credit-card size earns points from me.

    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.

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