I would think that SATA 3 initial aim is for the server market. With entry level servers using starting to use SATA for cost savings, SATA 3 should be able to push them more into the higher end level and compete with the faster SCSI technologies.
A 250 MB/s SSD was recently announced, a couple of years from now we could see even faster drives. There's that iodrive thing that was announced a milion years ago and is now being used in some servers, it has a read speed of 800 MB/s and currently uses the PCI-E x4 slot. Wouldn't it be nice to use it via SATA instead?
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Useless. Hard drives and SSDs get no where near the limit of SATA2 already. What's the point?
Bragging rights. Go home and tell the wifey about the new spec you worked on and how fast it is, casually leaving out the fact that it's worthless.
I would think that SATA 3 initial aim is for the server market. With entry level servers using starting to use SATA for cost savings, SATA 3 should be able to push them more into the higher end level and compete with the faster SCSI technologies.
A 250 MB/s SSD was recently announced, a couple of years from now we could see even faster drives. There's that iodrive thing that was announced a milion years ago and is now being used in some servers, it has a read speed of 800 MB/s and currently uses the PCI-E x4 slot. Wouldn't it be nice to use it via SATA instead?