Asus and Gigabyte companies on this week declared about the release of a motherboard , which support USB 3.0 and SATA-600 interfaces. If Gigabyte updated its motherboard on base of Intel p55 chipset, after equipping them with their NEC and Marvell controllers, then Asus proposes additional two ports USB 3.0 and two ports SATA-600.
Tests with the participation of barracuda XT and marvell controller showed that at the given moment passage on SATA-600 do not give any obvious advantages from the speed side
As reports associate MSI company does not intend to follow the example Of asus and Gigabyte, and to inject USB 3.0 and SATA-600 support during the present motherboard generation . devices with the support of new interfaces on the market are not many, but additional discrete controllers increase the cost of motherboard. Intel company will inject USB 3.0 support in 2011.