Gigabyte motherboard with SATA III spotted

Posted on Tuesday, May 26 2009 @ 17:33 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TweakTown visited Gigabyte today and after they passed the H1N1 swine flu test they saw a couple of interesting things like the first motherboard with SATA III (6Gb/s). The first motherboards with this technology will arrive soon, like the GA-EP55-UD5 and GA-EP55-UD4P, and Seagate will provide the first SATA III drives.
Regular hard disk drives struggle to even saturate SATA-II bandwidth, but current SSD drives already go very close. SATA-III or SATA 6 Gbit/s will offer maximum theoretical speeds of up to 750MB/s vs. 375MB/s of SATA-II. The chip used is from Marvell and is a SATA-II/III combo design supporting four SATA-III ports and six SATA-II ports with RAID 0 and 1 support as well as port multiplier. It is ready and working right now, although with a lack of drives, we were unable to run any tests.


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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