Recent news about hard drive Barracuda XT (ST32000641AS) often contained reference to the fact that Seagate has released a most capacious and the fastest HDD in the world. Only inquisitive minds were aware that new hard disk drive with reading speed 140 MB/s leaves SATA-600 interface capabilities (600 MB/s) uncalled.
Marvel SSD with SATA 600
The optimists stated that Solid State Drives will help to reveal the potential of the new interface. Workers of PC World searched Marvell website and managed to discover the demo system equipped with a SSD having SATA-600 interface. Of course, support of the new interface on the motherboard side was provided by Marvell 88SE9123 controller, which after latest amendment got rid of problems with the support of Parallel ATA. These problems with PATA have retained the majority of motherboard manufacturers to integrate the first version of the controller on its products. Renovated Marvell 88SE9123 will soon be delivered.
Mysterious SSD with Marvell logo on the lid shown in benchmark data transfer rate of about 360 MB/s. Now this is the result which is unattainable for the solutions with SATA-300 and opens capabilities of SATA-600.
