Desktop drive speeds into 6Gbps SATA

September 25, 2009:Seagate has launched a Barracuda XT 7200RPM drive featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface.

The 3.5-inch desktop drive maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration.

ASUS and GIGABYTE have begun shipping SATA 6Gb/s motherboards.