Seagate-AMD Demonstrates SATA 6 Gigabit/Second Technology

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Seagate teaming with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week...

Seagate teaming with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week, today unveiled the worlds first public demonstration of next-generation high-speed data transfer Serial ATA 6Gigabit/second for bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications including gaming, streaming video and graphics multimedia.


The Serial ATA (SATA) 6 Gb/second storage interface will deliver the highest performance burst speeds of up to 6Gigabits per second for all PC applications, maintain backward compatibility with the SATA 3 Gb/second and SATA 1.5 Gb/second interfaces, and use the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration. The third generation of the mainstream storage interface for desktop and notebook computers also enhances power efficiency and improves Native Command Queuing, a SATA feature, to increase overall system performance and data transfer speeds of mainstream PC applications but especially

applications with heavily transactional workloads such as scientific modeling and forecasting, and engineering design and simulation.


The increasing reliance of consumers and businesses worldwide on digital information is giving rise to gaming, digital video and audio, streaming video, graphics and other applications that require even more bandwidth, driving demand for PC interfaces that can carry even more digital content, said Joan Motsinger, Seagate vice president of Personal Systems Marketing and Strategy. The SATA 6Gb/second storage interface will meet this demand for higher-bandwidth PCs. Seagate has a long history of being first to market with new technologies such as Serial ATA, perpendicular recording and self-encrypting drives, and is pleased to be teaming with AMD to stage the worlds first public demonstration of SATA 6Gb/second storage.


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