Thread: Maxtor XT and 2TB SATA 6Gbps - a disappointment

Many have waited very long and the new storage interface SATA 6Gbps signed included. But now that many motherboard manufacturers started to launch motherboards supporting the technology, it has proved painfully obvious that today's storage technology has some advantages to get with the new interface. Seagate is the only one that presented a storage device with support for SATA 6Gbps and their Barracuda XT hard drive has now been tested in several parts of its new interface.

The results are disappointing, although we already knew that the mechanical hard drives would be unlikely to have much to gain by the new format. There are no mechanical hard drives that currently reaches transmission speeds of over 250MB / s to a greater extent and it is painfully obvious in the tests published today.
Together with Marvel SATA 6G controls are often the performance is actually worse than Intel's integrated SATA 3G controls at P55-chipset.

We still have not heard anything about SATA 6Gbps devices on solid-state market. But not until they start to show up, we seem to have any use for our new SATA ports.

The Crucial 300 series now features SATA 6Gb/s interface.