The SATA specification will get another speed bump, this time all the way up to 6GB/s, which doubles the speed of the current SATA II specification standard.

While some question the need for the speed bump, the SATA Revision 3.0 specification, as it known, will include advanced features for improved power management as well as data streaming which should improve performance.

The SATA standards consortium released the specifications that have been agreed to for the physical layer (PHY) portion of the new standard. The new standard will be backward compatible with existing SATA products, but they will of course not operate at the new speed.

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