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Seagate and AMD have partnered to show the world, the next generation SATA interface that is capable of transferring data up to 6Gigabit/second. In the demonstration, Seagate showed off two SATA HDDs – a 3Gb/s Barracuda 7200.12 drive and the 6Gb/s prototype Barracuda drive, both powered on AMD’s prototype chipset. The benchmark tests displayed on two different PCs revealed that the 3Gb/s drive runs at more than 2.5Gb/s while the SATA 3 one pulled off at 5.5Gb/s. There’s no word when the hardware supporting SATA 3 will be out but the day is not far away.