3Gb/s SATA???

[NetGuru42]

Are there even any 3Gb/s SATA Hard Drives available for purchase? Jeez, even the almighty Western Digital Rapter is only 1.5Gb/s. Why are they adding support to it on this board then? f*ed up.

f*ed up cool, that is... lol

 

[VirusType2]

I've seen hard drives up to about 250 Gig at Circuit city. I think they are wester digital

 

[dys4iK]

I've seen hard drives up to about 250 Gig at Circuit city. I think they are wester digital

Cute.

NetGuru, I think the idea is to support drives that will be coming to market in the future. Speeds double regularily, so it probably won't be long.

 

[`unreal]

I've seen hard drives up to about 250 Gig at Circuit city. I think they are wester digital

LOL its the transfer bus NetGuru is referring to

Yea Asus often does a good job of trying to future proof all it possibly can. I wouldnt complain

 

[Asus]

An actual harddrive only transfers upwards of 70mb/s in peaks so the connetion won't speed it up.
NCQ helps a bit and so do faster RPM's but still quite a bit under what the interface will support.

Only in RAID do you see higher steady transfer rates but still not hitting above 100, last I checked.

 

[Tr0n]

An actual harddrive only transfers upwards of 70mb/s in peaks so the connetion won't speed it up.
NCQ helps a bit and so do faster RPM's but still quite a bit under what the interface will support.

Only in RAID do you see higher steady transfer rates but still not hitting above 100, last I checked.

What about an ssd?

 

[blahblahblah]

Are there even any 3Gb/s SATA Hard Drives available for purchase? Jeez, even the almighty Western Digital Rapter is only 1.5Gb/s. Why are they adding support to it on this board then? f*ed up.

f*ed up cool, that is... lol

Its called future proofing. It also drains the wallets from hardware geeks so Asus can stay in business Seriously the next spec of SATA has some new features that can help speed up harddrives a bit more without resorting to faster rotational speeds and larger caches (though both of those are still important).

 

[jonbob]

I'm fairly sure you mean 300MB/s (2.4Gb/s). No drive could do 3GB/s, not even Ultra-640 could.

 

[Tr0n]

I'm fairly sure you mean 300MB/s (2.4Gb/s). No drive could do 3GB/s, not even Ultra-640 could.

Well actually...check this out:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ces20047.htm

If it's real or not I don't know, but read the specs.

The new Quantum-Optical technology has a minimum sustained write speed of 6 GB per second and a read speed of 8 GB per second.

 

[Link]

If thats true, then we could be facing an age where computers don't have RAM, instead simply using the HDD directly.

It could get even better. Imagine having a slot in the front for your HDD, the size of a media reader slot. You could have loads of OS's on different HDD and load a new OS by just shutting down, swapping drives and booting up.
(Ok, I know you can technically do that now, but imagine dioing it with something that is smaller than a floppy disk)
We can kiss CDss and DVD's goodbye as well.

That is some seriously exciting technology,

 

[Tr0n]

How would the no ram thing work?I thought computers have to have ram?

 

[Link]

The reason computers have to have RAM is that the HDD drive cannot provide data fast enough, so the OS or application you are using gets all the data it needs from the HDD and places it on the RAM ahead of time.

If this new stuff is used, you could have a motherboard that dosen't need it, a bios that dosen't look for it and an OS that runs without it. In theory. Exciting though it is, don't expect to see this for a long time, even if they release the chip technology tommorow...