SATA Revision 3.0 specification completed and released
By Darren Murph 
posted May 27th 2009 1:22PM
posted May 27th 2009 1:22PM
Well, it sure took 'em long enough. In August of last year, the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) got us all hot and bothered when it introduced the SATA Revision 3.0 specification to double transfer speeds to 6Gbps. It's taken until today, however, for that very specification to be completed and released. Thankfully for those who love to relish in the past, the new spec is backward compatible with earlier SATA implementations, and for those looking forward to new innovations, you'll appreciate the new streaming commands for isochronous data transfers between audio and video applications and the Low Insertion Force (LIF) connector for more compact 1.8-inch storage devices. We're told to expect SATA Revision 3.0 demonstrations next month at Computex, but who knows how long it'll be before this stuff seeps into shipping products.
Maybe they'll make a logo which looks a little bit more at home in 2009 to go with it...
I know its a little juvenile, but I can't help but think that the first "A" looks like it has a wiener.
Just Sayin'
Seek help
damn! do want!
Worst logo ever.
So will we soon start seeing some SSD with this standard. I wonder how this will compete with the PCI-X drives.
Does anything even get close to saturating sataII yet??
do you follow developments in the Solid State drive world? Single drives aren't there yet, but a RAID setup will saturate SATA 2.
Nope, not even close. The fastest SATA drives I know of are just getting to the 1Gbps rate. However if you use 5x SATA port multipliers you end up saturating the single 3Gbps channel.
@ Jacob
Didn't know you could put raid through a single sata channel, Lol
@ SuperQ
Who would bother using a multiplier instead of a raid card??
@SuperQ
Not even close? New MLC SSDs from OCZ, Intel, and Corsair are already hitting over 200MB/sec read speeds, and their burst speed from cache already easily saturates SATA/300. You can expect this speed march to continue, particularly with models that use Internal RAID0.
Now, if only 802.11n was the same way in getting from draft to final version as well...
Eh, using 802.11n Draft 2.0 to check Gmail Beta on Win 7 RC is just fine. And that's final...
...OR IS IT?
I thought the Power over SATA spec was coming along with revision 3.0?
Oh btw, the proper name for it will be SATA 6Gbps, not SATA 3.0. This is to avoid confusion with the 3Gbps SATA 2.0 standard.
I wish Apple would embrace the eSATA standard so I could expand my RAID options.
I'm sorry dave, I'm afraid Apple can't do that.
The logo is too ugly for them.
Bravo TRS, I don't think anyone else got that.
i duno whats the big deal with the logo...i kinda like it. looks retro, kinda 90's...those were the good ol' days :)
90s is already retro? Damn, I'm getting very old.
haha well im pushin 20 so for me 90's is retro :D
they should start making revisions for IDE to go that fast.
Well, with this revision finally completed.........I think we can say that probably in the 2nd quarter of 2010, we'll we looking at nice motherboards.........you se usb 3.0 and sata 3.0.......more speed and higher transfer rates.............nice.....!!!