Is the bus the speed-limiting factor, or is it the speed at which the platter(s) spin?
Are we really looking at netbooks with 6gb/s drive throughput?
If you're looking at external drives, I thought the sata 1.0 sockets were low insertion force...
Personally, I'd rather have an external PCIe connector and leave the rest up to the drive caddy. Then you could add a drive or a graphics card to your notebook.
If you look at the speed of the best SSD drives now, they are already saturating the 3gb/s SATA II bus and are well into SATA III territory already. By the time SATA III is out in volume 6gb/s will probably be too slow for the top-end SSD drives that will be on the market.
RE: Will be too slow by the time that it is out. #
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 13:44 GMT
As far as standard single SSD drives go (RAID is a different matter), the best SSD read speed top out at about 260MB/s but on average are 200MB/s so there is still room and 600MB/s is not to sniffed at for a storage device interface. If you really want faster throughput then other solutions already exist such as RAM drives but they are not cheap in the slightest. I have not even touched upon the fact that the fastest SSDs are still not affordable for normal consumers.
Have to agree with other comments that making a slimline dvd drive or 1.8" in sata version is not going to change the overall size of these components.
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Sata spec update to yield faster, thinner netbooks
Anonymous Coward
SATA Revision 3.0 #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 09:41 GMT
LOL,
Didn't take journo's long to drop the "Revision" did it?
Lionel Baden
<Nelson>HA Ha</nelson> #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:49 GMT
Points at USB 3.0
Anonymous Coward
really? #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 20:46 GMT
Is the bus the speed-limiting factor, or is it the speed at which the platter(s) spin?
Are we really looking at netbooks with 6gb/s drive throughput?
If you're looking at external drives, I thought the sata 1.0 sockets were low insertion force...
Personally, I'd rather have an external PCIe connector and leave the rest up to the drive caddy. Then you could add a drive or a graphics card to your notebook.
Anonymous Coward
So.............. #
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 08:31 GMT
A faster connection magically makes the drive smaller and faster??????
Richard Home
Will be too slow by the time that it is out. #
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 11:22 GMT
If you look at the speed of the best SSD drives now, they are already saturating the 3gb/s SATA II bus and are well into SATA III territory already. By the time SATA III is out in volume 6gb/s will probably be too slow for the top-end SSD drives that will be on the market.
Time to think of something else.
Calum
RE: Will be too slow by the time that it is out. #
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 13:44 GMT
As far as standard single SSD drives go (RAID is a different matter), the best SSD read speed top out at about 260MB/s but on average are 200MB/s so there is still room and 600MB/s is not to sniffed at for a storage device interface. If you really want faster throughput then other solutions already exist such as RAM drives but they are not cheap in the slightest. I have not even touched upon the fact that the fastest SSDs are still not affordable for normal consumers.
Have to agree with other comments that making a slimline dvd drive or 1.8" in sata version is not going to change the overall size of these components.
Another Anonymous Coward
Credit-card size earns points from me. #
Posted Saturday 30th May 2009 09:49 GMT
Never mind transfer speeds or encryption.. the biggest problem I have with small external storage is that I'm constantly losing it.
It's never a case of "grab the usb stick and go", it's always "spend 5 minutes finding the usb stick then go".
For someone like me this would be great as an addition to the wallet, always good to cut down on pocket clutter too.