One of the sights of Computex, held earlier this month became the new interface is SATA 3.0, which can speed the exchange of data to 6Gbit / s. The company showed Asus motherboards supporting the new technology. Previously, the company Silicon Image has a SATA 3.0 controller is the first generation, which provides maximum data transfer speed with the new interface, less theoretical level, total 250MB / s, due to the use of only one channel PCIe x1. On the basis of the controller made several prototypes of motherboards, including by EVGA.

The new motherboard Asus P6X58 another memory controller is developed by Marvell, which provides data transmission speeds, the limited value of about 500MB / s due to use of all channels of the two PCIe x1. This is a significant increase compared to 300Mb / s, provides the interface to SATA 2.0.

While the world market does not drive with support for SATA 3.0, manufacturers have been slow to provide motherboards with the new interface, but, according to representatives from Asus, a manufacturer in the coming months will release motherboards with a full set of features and benefits of SATA interface 6Gbit / sec. Not yet known what the controller SATA 3.0 will be made model Motherboard Gigabyte and other competitors Asus.