SATA3 and USB3 - Should we care?

[jaybee]

I notice that the new P55 motherboards are not coming out with USB3 or SATA3 due to delays in getting SATA3 working. Motherboards should start shipping with this functionality supposedly early 2010. But...is there a reason to wait for either of these technologies? USB3 probably not, but with regard to SATA3 with 6gbps bandwidth (600MB/s I believe?) will this not be required if people are going to be running SSDs in RAID 0 arrays when they get cheaper? Some single SSDs are up in the 200MB/s range are they not?

 

[jaybee]

There will always be add in sata 3 cards available when the technology matures, so I wouldn't say it's definitely worth holding back on a purchase for. SSDs are going to steadily get faster IMO, so I do think sata 3 will become a must have feature, but like I said, add in cards will be available.

I'm not really sure about USB3 though, useful if you are copying Gigs of film back and forwards between your PC and a suitable enabled mobile device, but a lot of people like wireless technologies for the convenience vs the performance of wired.

Of course, I didn't think of that. I guess then the bottleneck would be the PCI express slot that the SATA 3 card was sat in, which would mean having to use atleast an 8x slot maybe?