Western Digital Releases First SATA 3.0 VelociRaptor HDDs

[Rob Williams]

While the rest of the world is glued to the latest and greatest SSD reviews, there are certainly a great many enthusiasts resisting the urge to splurge. With low densities and high prices, SSD technology is just not in a place that makes people comfortable with parting with their hard earned cash. Magnetic storage is still not only viable, but it is also still very necessary for long term storage needs.

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[Doomsday]

why is SATA 3.0 not being well received!?

 

[Tharic-Nar]

Because it only benefits top end SSD's and Cache on standard HDD. A normal HDD can just about push a SATA 1 connection to the limit, very few tread into SATA 2 territory. The only use is Cache and even then, the benefit is marginal and not seen in real world testing. Now we have SATA 3, well, even cache has a hard time using the increased bandwidth, so all this just leads us to conclude that SATA 3 is all about the SSD's.

SSD's are, in regard to HDD's, a small market due to price, and even then, only a handful of drives could use the full bandwidth of SATA 2. Much of the limitations rest on the controller, rather than the memory itself. So now we have SATA 3, only a tiny percentage of the market has a use for it now and in the future, since we won't see an SSD reaching the limit of SATA 3 for at least another year, possibly 2.