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aibrahim writes "In the recent Slashdot article about Serial ATA some people wanted to know where SCSI was going, and if Serial ATA could deal with some higher end workstation and low end server requirements. Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."

Slashback this holiday evening with just a few quick updates and follow-ups (below) -- I hope those to whom the Fourth of July is a significant holiday are out (responsibly) making things explode.

Nearly anything is better than ribbon cables. aibrahim writes "In the recent /. article about Serial ATA some people wanted to know where SCSI was going, and if Serial ATA could deal with some higher end workstation and low end server requirements. Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."

Because being an American is all about first-person shooters. and i starve writes: "For any of you FPS fans out there who have been champing at the bit to see the newest product of our very own government's attempt at a multiplayer video game since Marine Doom your day has final come. America's Army, which utilizes the Unreal Warfare engine was created and designed by the United States Army and is TOTALLY FREE! go grab it off of File Planet right now!"

Before you hit your "JINGO" button, though, An anonymous reader cautions "In typical Army fashion the release of America's Army is a bust. All the servers are either full or down and the way it's set up, you can't play past the basic training without completing some of the training online. Since you can't connect to any of the servers to complete that training you basically can't play the game at all. What a waste of taxpayer money."

Nobody needs to make any cracks about this. Anonymous Coward writes "According to this CNN Article, [some cracks were] found on Space Shuttle Columbia this week, possibly delaying missions for the remainder of the year. This crack is similar to the crack found on Columbia's sister ships, Atlantis and Discovery. "

Worst pun in relation to this gets no prize.

fazzumar asks: "I've been checking out serial ATA (SATA) and it seems like it's got a lot of potential. The first generation spec was finalized August 2001 and members of the SATA group anticipate a 12-18 month acceptance period. They've planned for a cut-over phase and adapters that allow connecting SATA devices to ATA adapters and vice versa. The cables alone are a worthwhile advantage (4 pins, up to 1 meter in length), and the 150MB/sec bandwidth is a (minor) improvement over current ATA drives & adapters. Infoworld has a story on SATA that provides a few tidbits of information. What I really want to know is, will manufacturers of the new host adapters be able to integrate many of the advantages that SCSI provides or will the cost of adding these features push the retail cost too high for the anticipated market?" I just picked up a new WD Hard drive just yesterday for the planned MP3 jukebox I hope to be building near the end of the summer. I really wanted to go SCSI, but couldn't. While the poster claims a near ~7x in price difference, I saw about a ~5x difference in my local store. Is SCSI in danger of falling behind IDE drives (especially serial IDE drives) in popularity?

"I love SCSI, and I can bring myself to accept the additional cost of the controller, but with IDE hard drive prices dropping, I frequently wonder if SCSI drive prices are artificially inflated. Just a few years ago, SCSI drives were ~10-20% more than IDE and now they're ~7X more than an IDE drive. (Seagate 10k RPM SCSI - ~18 gig for ~175. Western Digital 7200 RPM IDE - ~120 gig for ~175) If the option comes out to get SCSI performance from an IDE drive I'm going to take it."