Actually, the OCZ Vertex http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_vertex_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd/ can sustain about 230MB/s. This is equal to about 2.3 Gb/sec. Allowing for the rate at which SSD technology seems to be changing, I'd say that this standard is just in the nick of time. Chances are that the next thing in high-end, consumer SSDs will saturate a SATA link. If this standard doesn't get pushed out soon, drive manufacturers will be doing ugly, proprietary, OS specific hacks to support multiple SATA links to a single device. In addition, lots of people are packaging multiple physical drives into a single SSD with an internal RAID-0 controller. These are definitely being(or soon going to be) held back by the 3BG/s SATA link.

Great analysis! My wife and I went through this when our kids were born. Genetic diseases were the deal breaker for us. Basically, if you need stem cells, it's unlikely that you want your own cells that likely caused the problem to begin with. Also, the chance that one's cord blood is useful to another family member isn't very likely so that option is out as well. It really remains to be seen if private banking of any bio material will be useful when compared to public banks. In the absence of a major and specific scientific breakthrough, there is just no compelling reason for private banking.

In the end we donated their cord blood and, if needed, we'll use the cord blood bank like everybody else.