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    Sata 3/ssd

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Cloudfire, Nov 2, 2010.

  1. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    I know Sandy Bridge will support SATA 3.0, but what SSD will use that? Crucial C300 is a SATA 3 but it wont get any faster speed with SATA 3 compared to SATA 2 right?

    And i dont think the new G3 SSDs from Intel will use SATA 3 either so what will? And when do they come out?
     
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  2. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The new Sandforce based drives will most likely be SATA/600, but the Intel G3s will not. Though sequential speeds will be able to take advantage of SATA/600, the more important speeds, random speeds are barely able to saturate SATA/150.
     
    sgogeta4, Nov 2, 2010
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    Abula Puro Chapin

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    Well the impressive numbers we see from the C300 are on sataIII LSI PCIe controllers, so yes i think we will see an improvements over the marvel sata3 controllers, not sure if its gona reach the lvls the LSI controller can. Im not totally sure if SB will come with native sataIII support or even in laptop but i hope they do, since i dont think we will see something like LSI for portables.
     
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    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    According to sgogeta the random speeds do not benefit from SATA 3?
    It is nice that the sequential have benefit from it though :)

    Do you know when SSDs with the new Sandforce controller will be available?

    According to multiple sites ive visited, new mainboards for desktops with Sandy Bridge have SATA 3. So why not laptops?
     
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    Desktop motherboard manufacturers have the option of installing 3rd party controller chips (e.g. Marvell) onto the motherboard to support things like SATA 3 and USB 3.0.

    Laptop motherboards do not have this flexibility, because extra controller chips on the motherboard would mean extra size, power consumption, and heat. Most laptops do not have SATA-3 and USB 3.0, and will not have them until Intel builds support for these features into the Intel chipsets.
     
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    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Oh ok. Thanks, learned something new today
     
    Cloudfire, Nov 2, 2010
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    The benchmarks for SATA 3 is pretty poor right now anyway. The firmware has yet to mature. Mind you SATA 3 is relatively new, wait a few years down the line.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Nov 2, 2010
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  8. Phil

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    The C300 is the fastest SSD on a good SATA III controller.

    But will Intel's Sandy bridge have a good SATA III controller that can get maximum performance out of SSDs? That's the big question.

    Let's hope they won't make the same mistakes as with the series 5 chipsets.
     
    Phil, Nov 3, 2010
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