Serial ATA and Serial SCSI

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."

Comments

I doubt it

[Jack Wagner]

I actually spent a bit of time on the SCSI board of standards back when they were commited towards making great strides in I/O throughput, and they have some real terrific advances that will be released in the next year when their patent's get approved. It's all hush hush and on the QT at the moment and my NDA runs through the end of 2003 so that's all I can say about it.

After briefly looking at the spec for Serial ATA I can see several limitations which will most certainly cause a bottelneck for any I/O simply due to the insane RPM's they require to actually hit their maximum VtR/mg (moving heads [sic] to magnetic resonence ratio). They need to have a look at perhaps doing some embedded hardware hacks which will allow them less resistance in the SCSI channel on the motherboard as opposed to quantum magnetic research. Just my opinion of course and not a reflection of the opinion of my company.

Best Regards,
-Jack