<Li> Slimline connector . </Li> <P> Serial ATA International Organization (SATA - IO) presented the draft specification of SATA 6 Gbit / s physical layer in July 2008, and ratified its physical layer specification on August 18, 2008 . The full 3.0 standard was released on May 27, 2009 . </P> <P> Third - generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit / s; taking 8b / 10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit / s (600 MB / s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 6.0 Gbit / s is double that of SATA revision 2.0 . It is backward compatible with SATA 3 Gbit / s . </P> <P> The SATA 3.0 specification contains the following changes: </P>

Sata 6 gb/s - 7 pin serial ata