VIA has just announced the fastest USB 3.0 to SATA single chip controller – VL700, which enables SATA hard drives, solid state drives and optical drives to be connected with the PC via new USB 3.0 ports.

With data transfer rate of up to 5Gbps, USB 3.0 offers ten times the throughout available to USB 2.0 based devices, which means it would take much less time to transfer the information stored on a SATA device to a PC.

The VIA VL700 supports both SATA 3Gbps and 1.5Gbps data transfer rates and also Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which allows HDDs/SSDs to internally optimize the order in which received read and write commands are executed, thereby increasing performance.

Data transfer to and from SATA-based DVD and Blu-ray Disc players is also supported. The attendees at the CES will be able to view a demo of the new controller.