Vigile writes "More than simply a faster 6.0 Gb/s data throughput speed, the SATA 6G standard offers improved NCQ support, better power management and a new connector to support 1.8-inch drives. While modern day spindle-based hard drives struggle to keep up with SATA 3G speeds, the advent of modern SSDs are nearly saturating the existing standard and a move to SATA 6G was welcome in the hardware community. It looks like that technology will be delayed though as the only chip supporting the standard today, the Marvell 88SE9123, is having major issues. Motherboard vendors including ASUS and Gigabyte, who had planned on releasing SATA 6G technology using the chip on Intel Lynnfield platform motherboards later this summer, are having to remove the Marvell 88SE9123 and redesign their boards at the last minute due to significant speed and reliability issues." Link to Original Source
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