Thread: SATA SixGb/s on Your Newly Motherboard?

Back about Ten years before, we were brought in to series ATA Revision 1.0 Specification. And life was well! From an enthusiast standpoint, what we actually got was skinny cables to substitute those worse and unmanageable ATA ribbon lines so many of us hated. Man, how those things were hard to route and create a clean appearing rig? In the final decade we have seen SATA standards progress at a steady rate. Starting at 1.5Gb/s with Rev.1, to 3.0Gb/s with Rev. 2 and now SixGb/s with "Serial ATA Revision 3.0 Specification."


Without a querie, the SATA user interface has become the de facto standard for both mechanical and solid state information drives.
The series ATA International system AKA SATA-IO, is type of picky about what SATA becomes called. In fact we have already broken its rules in the paragraphs above more than 1s.




When mentioning to the specification, utilize "Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specification" for the 1st address. For sequential address, this can be shortened to "SATA Revision 3.0." Do not utilize "SATA 3.0." While mentioning to transfer rates, the technology can be right mentioned to as "SATA 6Gb/s."


Few of these naming patterns make SATA puzzling to folks, which is entirely understandable. We see "SATA Three" thrown about entire the time meaning unlike matters. Just do a find on "SATA Three" and see what entire you arrive back with appearing for a SATA Rev. 3.0 hard drive; not pretty.


The SATA-IO should standardize on a naming convention that would shine few data on the bus speeds. Untill that is done, which is similarly never since it raelly creates sense, we will refer to SATA links by the speed of the machine as referenced over; SATA SixGb/s. That way we are entire confirm what we are speaking over. We do however have to give the SATA-IO credit for spelling out "SixGb/s" on the official badge / logo for the Revision Three product. This will hopefully cut down on few of the confusion by more astute consumers.