I find it odd that VIA have chosen the week of CES to announce this given all the press attention on innovative gadgets but they've launched a USB 3.0 to SATA controller. VIA just loves its subsibuaries, and it's VIA Labs that are responsible for the R&D on this one. The VL700 is a single chip solution that will allow you to connect your SATA, SDD or optical drive to your PC via a USB 3.0 port. USB 3.0 is super fast, so data transfers using this connection will be awesome - up to 5Gbps.
"Developed by wholly owned subsidiary company VIA Labs, the VIA VL700 supports both SATA 3Gbps and 1.5Gbps data transfer rates and also Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which allows HDDs/SSDs to internally optimize the order in which received read and write commands are executed, thereby increasing performance. Additionally, data transfer to and from SATA-based DVD and Blu-ray Disc players is supported."
I guess VIA Labs will be selling this to motherboard manufacturer's including VIA's own VEPD section who make EPIA boards.
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