Seagate and AMD Unveil World's First Demonstration of Serial ATA 6Gigabit/Second Technology for High-Speed PC Applications
09 Marzo 2009 - 12:59PM
PR Newswire (US)
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate
(NASDAQ: STX), teaming with microprocessor manufacturing leader
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at the Everything Channel Xchange
Conference in New Orleans this week, today unveiled the world's
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) 6Gb/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 3Gb/second and SATA
1.5Gb/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 world's first public
demonstration of SATA 6Gb/second storage." "AMD strives to deliver
platform technology that our technology partners can use to create
high- performance desktop and laptop PCs," said Leslie Sobon, vice
president of Product Marketing, AMD. "The new SATA 6Gb/second
technology not only incorporates the best features of previous SATA
generations but also includes new enhancements. This innovation
enables AMD to continue to evolve its technology platforms and to
develop low-cost designs that our technology partners can use to
improve their own PC and laptop products." The Seagate and AMD
demonstration features two Seagate SATA disk drives - one a
shipping Barracuda(R) 7200.12 3Gb/second hard drive and the other a
prototype Barracuda 6Gb/second drive - in a desktop PC to show the
performance difference between the two generations. The PC is
powered by an AMD prototype SATA 6Gb/second chipset. The Seagate
SATA 3Gb/second drive runs at more than 2.5Gigabits per second and
the SATA 6Gb/second drive at 5.5Gigabits per second, with the
performance of each storage interface displayed on the PC monitor.
Serial ATA 6Gb/second - Blazing speed for next-generation personal
computing Serial ATA (SATA), the mainstream storage interface for
desktop and notebook disk drives, is currently available in two
speeds - 3Gb/second and 1.5Gb/second. SATA 6Gb/second was developed
by the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) under the
Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specification. In keeping with SATA-IO
objectives for designing a low-cost interface for desktop and
notebook PCs, SATA 6Gb/second maintains the low cost and low-power
design requirements of previous SATA generations, and is designed
to be backward compatible with SATA 3Gb/second connectors, cables
and other hardware. About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide leader
in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disk drives and
storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of
applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing,
Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business
model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing
to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global
customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all
markets in which it participates. The company is committed to
providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability
to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate
can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/.
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