Gigabyte already do have motherboards with the new generation SATA ports
One of the most interesting of them could take the motherboard with SATA ports 6 Gbit / s (SATA III). Recall, in March this year the company Seagate and AMD have demonstrated the world’s first work of this high-speed interface, which will be added to the desktop platform for the main segment of AMD Pisces. Theoretical maximum speed of the exchange on SATA III interface is 750 MB / s, which exceeds the limit of half the SATA II.
It seems that the company Gigabyte has a chance to become one of the first vendors of motherboards with the new interface. List of novelties, which are equipped with ports SATA III, includes model GA-EP55-UD5, GA-EP55-UD4P and updated version of the model GA-EX58A-Extreme. Since the chipset with support for next-generation SATA yet, the ports listed on the cards sold through the company’s controller, Marvell. It allows you to add four ports SATA III, and six-port SATA II, supports RAID configurations 0 and 1, and can operate as a port multiplier.
