http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/ Engadget Comments for Seagate demos world's first SATA 6Gbps hard disk as speed-freaks swoon http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
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Perhaps you've never heard of a Raid 0 setup before, eh? RAID absolutely crushes SATA's thresholds if you have the right HDDs. With 2 WD raptor 10ks, you'll break 200 MB/sec reads pretty easily. Add more HDDs or go to SDD RAID or NAS and you can easily saturate SATA 3G.

Saying that upgrading to the new spec is for suckers means you know nothing about what's out there right now. You probably have a Dell XPS and a Pentium 4. Let the big kids talk--this stuff is over your head.]]>Mar 9th 2009 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 10th 2009 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
(by the way, should i go for a 2.26ghz processor or wait till i have enough for a 2.8 or 2.9? would the difference be worth it?)]]>Mar 9th 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
Are you planning to replace the chipset of a laptop too? Good luck with that and let us know how you got on. (That means no to you and me.)

(Regarding your BTY: value and worth of objects are relative to you. If you want it for the mere fact that you will own better parts then no. If you are going to make use of the difference in the work that you do then yes.)]]>Mar 9th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
@ebzy... ok, ok... dont kill me i mustve skipped over that part... eheh... (and... i basically want a really good gaming machine :) so yea... i plan on "making use of the difference"... if there is any)

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All that said, if you want a gaming computer I would highly recommend you build a desktop for several reasons. It will be cheaper and easier to upgrade. While laptops are more portable, gaming laptops tend to have really short battery life, weigh a lot, are comparatively expensive, and just generally be a pain to carry around.]]>Mar 9th 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
And by nearly I mean, with still 0.3Gbps to go.]]>Mar 9th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/1 MBps = 8 Mbps.

So yes, 600MBps = 4800Mbps.

Remember, folks, 1 Byte is made up of 8 Bits.]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 10th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
You do realize that Seagate is bigger than WD, and that almost ALL of WD's HDD's use licensed Seagate technology, right?

/s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital
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.6GBps = 76.8MBps :/]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/

no freakin edit button :/]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
Their test speed was roughly 600 MB/s...
600 MB/s = 4800 Mb/s = 4.69 Gb/s

(Note, MB to GB conversions aren't factors of 10, they're factors of 2)]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/still no edit button :/]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
Are HD transfer speeds calculated in Hard Drive Gb/s (Base 10) or Computer Gb/s (Base 2)?

The whole idea that storage space on a hard drive is still measured in base 10 (ie Base 10 megabyte = 1,000,000 and Base 2 megabyte = 1,048,576) makes no sense to me.
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As SATA uses 10bit words, and as throughput is measured in base-10 (1MB = 1000kB etc), a 6GHz SATA link yields a maximum transfer rate of 600MBps.]]>Mar 10th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/1394b S3200
Or, more advanced, 1394c (different cables, instead of just different speed)

And if you count things that are not "version 3", then TransferJet.]]>Mar 9th 2009 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
but i do have a couple of WD caviar black on raid-0... those are nice.]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/
A simple example would be your PCI-E bus - you can have a throughput of 250MB/s per lane, but a PCI-E-based device does not mean it can run at 250MB/s (e.g. Network Cards).

kashif

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Is it about SATA as a channel speed or SATA as a hardware speed?]]>Mar 9th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/Mar 9th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/seagate-demonstrates-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-disk-making-s/same with 6Gb/s 589.09MB/s which is 4712.12Mb/s which isnt event 5Gb/s
im confused
am i an ignorant or is there a typo
im lost...]]>Mar 10th 2009 7:20AM