If the SATA III only starts to be found on high-end workstation, it is almost impossible to find HD with this specification (beside some forthcoming or samples of SSDs). However, things should change quickly as Western Digital announced that 2 TB HD models will now be available with a SATA III port instead of todays SATA II. The manufacturer will adopt the new format for the rest of its models over the coming year. One should not expect a major jump in performance, and in the best case scenario only a larger cache of the HD will benefit from this larger SATA bandwidth. One will still need a long time before seeing plate-based HD to reach 300 MB/s in transfer speed.
