Seagate just announced the shipment of the Barracuda XT, the fastest 2TB drive with the Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second interface and 64Mb cache. This new SATA specification uses the current cables and connectors for easy integration but it needs a compatible motherboard which is currently manufactured by Asus and Gigabyte. The best thing is that it is backward compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s, so you can use the drive now and change your motherboard later to make full use of the 6Gb/s transfer speed.
This is the Third Generation SATA technology, called Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.0 or SATA Revision 3.0, which should be named SATA 6Gb/s drives to avoid confusion.
http://www.serialata.org/developers/naming_guidelines.asp
Details here: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/seagate-ships-worlds-fastest-desktop-hard-drive-first-drive-to-feature-serial-ata-6gbitsecond-technology-2009-09-21
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