Many have been waiting long for the new storage interface SATA 6Gbps, your’s truly included. Now that multiple motherboard manufacturers are about to launch board supporting the technology it turns out, in a painfully obvious way, that the new interface has no advantages today. Seagate is the only company that has a harddrive sporting SATA 6Gbps and its Barracuda XT harddrive have now been tested with the new interface.
The results are disappointing, though we knew that mechanical harddrive have very little to gain from the new format. There are no mechanical drives that reach above 250MB/s to any major extent and this is painfully obvious from the tests published today.
Together with Marvel’s SATA 6G controller performance can sometimes drop below that of the compared integrated SATA 3G controller of the Intel P55 chipset.
Seagate Barracuda XT with SATA 6Gbps
We are still waiting for SATA 6Gbps drives to take over among Solid State Drives, it won’t be until these arrive that we will really need our new and shiny SATA ports.
Reviews of Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB and SATA 6Gbps –
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