Seagate Unveils prototype 6Gbps Hard Drive .

[stuge]

In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced Monday its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA (SATA) interface, tentatively called SATA3, that offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. (SATA3, or SATA 6GB/second, was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization under the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specifications.)
Currently most consumer-grade computers use either the SATA or SATA2 interface that offers cap throughput speeds of 1.5Gbps and 3Gbps, respectively, or 150MBps and 300MBps. However, it's important to note that because of software and hardware overhead, the actual speed of most SATA hard drives is still less than 200MBps.
The new interface will raise the ceiling of hard drive throughput speeds by 200 percent, and hopefully the actual transfer speed of hard drives will increase accordingly.

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[Mark]

Woah.. that is fast!

[stuge]

I feel that will keeP SSD at bay for a while .

[hellnoire]

This along with USB 3.0 will be amazing.

I'll be upgrading once all the bugs are worked out.

[brayden]

darn maybe i should have waited a bit before i got my seagate drive. well it might take a while for all the bugs to get worked out of this! damn that is fast, and looks expensive.

[jcgo16]

wow, so fast
we gotta upgrade to the next computer models
haha
super computers

[bahirzaheri8]

wow, thats 2 fast

[Rusty]

it will have bugs i have a seagate that i found out came from the factory with a virus that sends gaming passes back to the server at the manufacturer lol. This was a maxtor until seagate took them over.Prolly most comps could not handle it but i'd happily beta test one for them

[LocoMojoJojo]

I hope it doesn't create a mini tornado in my chassis when I do manage to buy one...

[Polkadot]

I'd hate to see the price tag on it! Right now you can buy a 1 TB Seagate, that even though only 7200rpm, reads/writes about 1% slower than a Veloci-Raptor.
Veloci-Raptor 300GB = +/- $300.00
Seagate 1 TB = +/- $120.00, or about $260.00 bundled w/ Vista Ultimate OEM !