Seagate, teamed with AMD unveiled Serial ATA 6Gigabit/second – for bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications including gaming, streaming video and graphics multimedia at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week. The Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second storage interface will deliver the highest performance – burst speeds of up to 6Gigabits per second – for all PC applications. The best thing is that despite this big improvement, they will use the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration. Native Command Queuing, the intelligent technique they use to increase the overall system performance and data transfer speed keeping in mind the applications which take up heavily transactional work-loads, has been improved immensely.

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