Posted on Friday, December 05 2008 @ 2:21 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
spotted that ATI's SB600 southbridge, which arrives in the second half of 2009, will support the SATA 3.0 6Gb/s standard.
AMD will be among the supporters and we believe that the hard drive industry will follow. We are sure that SATA 3.0 devices will run a bit faster and you can forget about doubling your performance simply from going from SATA 2.0 to 3.0. Theoretically, SATA 3.0 has doubled the bandwidth that jumped from 3 Gb/s to 6Gb/s and this should bring some performance improvements but we wouldn't expect some huge leaps.
