""It just runs, it's all hardware negotiation. It's designed to go for top speed first and downshifts if the hardware negotiation fails," he told InternetNews.com. If need be, a 6Gbit drive can run in an old computer with the 1.5Gbit interface SATA first used when it shipped in 2003.
"With drives increasing in size to well over a terabyte in capacity, and files getting bigger, a faster interface was necessary. "Part of this is to keep the drive from being the bottleneck, and part of this is to make the data rates be a little faster for when data comes off the drive," Noblitt said. "As density grows, data rate grows. That means there needs to be improved data rate speed.""
