Western Digital Has Released Its First Consumer 6GB/s Drive

[Soultribunal]

With the advent of SATA6 and motherboard manufacturers offering their latest and greatest for this technology it was only a matter of time. Western Digital has released their WD Black 1TB drive incorporating this technology. The 3.5 inch drive bears some similarities to its former kin , and like all Black drives speed is set at 7200rpm. Besides the... [ Read full article ]

[MarkOne]

Very good news, the ball is in the hand of Intel and Amd to produce chips to run them now


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[gingerbee]

ya I think we will be waiting another year before that happens

[Lamb]

They've been available there for some days, price isn't too bad! Should be around 120$ pretty much everywhere I guess (Oh well...they'll be available very soon since they're on special order for now at SOHO, but we have the price!)

WD1002FAEX-WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB CAVIAR BLACK 7200RPM 64MB CACHE SATA II-HARD DRIVES-STORAGE- SOHODIFFUSION.COM

[mikellini]

Am I missing something here, or what is the point? These drives don't perform well enough to benefit from SATA 6 GPBS

[gingerbee]

someone is mixing up sector size change with sata2 and sata3 the drive you listed is a sata 2 connection but it is a new 4 k sector drive hence the 64mb cache it is not a sata3 connection.

[headsh0t]

^^ Ya that drive that Lamb linked is SATA 2 just with 64mb cache (with the higher sector size), not SATA 3

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by mikellini

Am I missing something here, or what is the point? These drives don't perform well enough to benefit from SATA 6 GPBS

and you are right about it.

But if more HD mechanical manufacturer do sata3 drives, Intel and Amd will make the chipset sata3, so the real winner will be the SSD , only drive that will be able you use it, in raid of course

[gingerbee]

i look at it this way maybe a sata3 hd will come much closer to max the sata2 connection so the more the better.

[Ryoohki]

I wonder if the HDD manifacturer will do SSD's sometime....