AMD and Seagate make a demonstration of SATA III

During a press conference, AMD and Seagate made the demonstration of the first fully functional interfaces of a bus SATA III able to convey data at 6 Gbits/s, i.e. a good 600 MB/s. This new standard thus doubles the data flow of the preceding standard while preserving total compatibility with the products of the old generation. The cables, the connectors will remain identical and thus will avoid any technological rupture.
It is amusing to see that Seagate is in such a hurry to promote this standard that should be the biggest help to the SSD market, a market in which they are still absent. Indeed, there are already SSD disks able to transfer data at nearly 250 MB/s and the evolution goes very quickly. No SATA hard drive is able to approach these flows and will be certainly only able to do it between the SATA interface and the cache.
This standard should be installed on the first computers at the end of the year. Its use by the general public will mainly depend on goodwill manufacturers of the Chipsets, Intel, NVidia and AMD.