You don't have to worry about which serial ATA port you use to connect a device to a motherboard: all the ports run at the same speed. However, every motherboard that supports SATA supports a ...

Those of us in the business of keeping an eye on new technologies wonder why the buzz about SATA 6Gbit/sec. (a.k.a. Serial ATA Revision 3) hasn’t been louder than it is. SATA 6Gbit/sec. is the ...

Version 2 of the Serial ATA physical-layer specification, SATA II, is under development and, just as recently occurred with the draft variant of 802.11g, silicon implementations are preceding its ...

In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced today its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA interface, tentatively called SATA3, that offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. Currently most ...

SATA II would likely bottleneck a midrange SATA SSD for some types of random reads/writes though. BTW, really, really fast SSDs achieve such blazing fast speeds by leveraging the same principle as ...