High Tech Lounge » SATA RAID Controller http://www.htlounge.net Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:53:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Marvell Reveals the First 6Gb/s SATA RAID Controller http://www.htlounge.net/art/8297/marvell-reveals-the-first-6gbs-sata-raid-controller.html http://www.htlounge.net/art/8297/marvell-reveals-the-first-6gbs-sata-raid-controller.html#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:30:01 +0000 caitas http://www.htlounge.net/?p=8297 At the beginning of this week, Seagate Company presented its first 6Gb/s SATA HDD entitled Barracuda XT 2TB HDD. The upcoming Barracuda XT is compatible with an user interface that is two times more energetic that earlier hard drives.

Complementing the upcoming SATA interface, Marvell company presented the innovative controller entitled 88SE9128 6Gb/s RAID. This type of controller is was compulsory development because it enables customers to operate storage matrixes with stuff such as mirroring the data in search for redundancy. The innovative RAID controller doubles the bandwidth which existed prior to the device`s development.

Marvell states that it has been working along with mainboard manufacturers such as ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI in order to launch on the market the mainboard with the new 6Gb/s RAID device. Companies Micron, Seagate and Samsung plan to manufacture drivers which support the new SATA speeds and make full good use of their capacities. Marvell Company is currently sampling the upcoming RAID controller to the first place OEMs and the gadget is going to be produced on a mass scale starting with the fourth quarter of 2009.

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