P67 and H67 SATA degradation?

[T101]

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/01/31/intel-shares-halted-for-news/?mod=yahoobarrons

Any more verifications if this is true or not?

Dupe
-ViRGE

 

[IntelUser2000]

Well, the halt happened due to Intel releasing such info to the press, so I can't see why its false...

 

[T101]

Crap. This is the first time I am a very early adopter of a new architecture/chipset. And looks like I will pay the price for it..

 

[ahurtt]

From the article:

"In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives."

I'd love to hear if anybody has specifics about the bolded parts. What cases exactly?
Will it affect the performance or the functionality...or did they really mean it can affect the performance AND/OR the functionality? The way it's worded now makes it sound like if affected, your drive will either be slowed down or it will malfunction but not both. Nor do they state the amount of time over which noticeable degradation may occur. Why don't they just come out and say exactly what the problem is? Though we already suspect that it has something to do with the use of cheese as a semiconductor material in the manufacture of these devices.

 

[Diogenes2]

I wonder if it may have been the SATA 3 ports specifically..
I noticed mine were waaaaay slow with ATTO, but the SATA 2's as well as the Marvells seem fine..