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So I've recently been seeing on the higher grade motherboards SATA 6.0gb/s ports. That's all fine and dandy. Extra room for expansion.. Now, my question is why are people already selling SATA 6.0GB/s port containing harddrives when it is already known that harddrives aren't even saturating 3.0GB/s(even server grade). Example link
What is the point of this?
1All transfers from the drive are always from a buffer. What is called a "sustained rate" is a numerical average of the full SATA rate used for transferring sectors combined with idle time on the bus between full transfers. It is not a reduced transfer rate actually used on the SATA bus. – sawdust – 2011-06-16T05:21:32.260