Micron ships 6Gbps SATA SSDs; Seagate partners with Samsung InfoStor: “Micron today introduced enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives with 6Gbps SATA interfaces. Most competing SATA SSDs are based on 3Gbps SATA.” Read more on Linux Today [...more]
SATA 6Gbit/sec…Does It Double Your SATA Speed? Those of us in the business of keeping an eye on new technologies wonder why the buzz about SATA 6Gbit/sec. (a.k.a. Serial ATA Revision 3) hasn’t been louder… Read more on PC World [...more]
SerialTek Adds Linux Support for BusXpert and BusMod SAS and SATA Protocol Development Tools SerialTek, a SAS and SATA protocol test solutions company, announces Linux compatibility for its line of BusXpert SAS/SATA protocol analyzers as well as the BusMod SAS/SATA Error Injector. Read more on PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance [...more]
Everywhere on the web I read about using the hdparm utility to increase hard drive speed. However it seems that this utility does not support sata drives properly. I have access to at least 5 different machines that run linux with different sata hard drives but the hdparm command fails more or less on each [...] [...more]