How far away are the SATA3 Drives?

[dmarook]

I am planning to buy a couple of large capacity hard drives to expand and reorganise my media collection. I see a lot of noise being made about SATA3 and USB3 being much faster then the current lot. Most of the new motherboards also seem to have these. But I cant seem to find many HDDs with sata3 connection. I can find a few offerings from WD and one from Seagate. Is that all?

Are they coming? When? How soon? Should I wait another month? Is the new standard really that fast worth waiting for? Does anyone know any reasonable time scale as to when these drives will flood the market? Thanks in advance.

 

[Elixer]

Unless you are getting some high end SSDs, or RAID some very fast HDs then SATA 3 is pretty much not needed.
Current gen HDs are just too slow.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Sata III has nothing to do with the actual speed of the drive itself.... It is an interface protocol in-which the data from the drive travels too and from the controller on the motherboard. Modern day HDD drives in a single configuration cannot saturate the SATA III interface. By the time large HDD storage drives saturate the SATA III interface the recession will be over with.

 

[dmarook]

Thanks for the comments. I'll get on with buying some drives then.

 

[Elixer]

Sata III has nothing to do with the actual speed of the drive itself.... It is an interface protocol in-which the data from the drive travels too and from the controller on the motherboard. Modern day HDD drives in a single configuration cannot saturate the SATA III interface. By the time large HDD storage drives saturate the SATA III interface the recession will be over with.

Yeah, ok, I over simplified a bit...

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Yeah, ok, I over simplified a bit...

I think we both posted at the same time. I was referring to the OP hah