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The Coming of Serial ATA
GrendelT writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of the newest Serial ATA gadgets that are soon to hit the market. With speeds of 150Mb/s, thinner and longer cables, backwards compatibilty with Parallel ATA (what most of us have right now), and the option of being hot-pluggable, it seems the next step in storage technology is upon us."
That's what I originally thought, too. But the story title is a typo: They're talking about 150MegaBytes/sec, not bits.
The next version of firewire on the horizon will only be able to do 100Megabytes/sec (800Megabits/sec).
Still, I'd much rather they dump Serial ATA altogether and concentrate on FireWire. 100Megabytes/sec is just plenty, and FireWire is a much more general and flexible standard.
The poster was wrong... SerialATA supports 150MB/s, not 150Mb/s.
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Don't know if you know this or not, but Serial ATA is 150MB/s... as in, 150 megabytes per sec.
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Just say no to round ATA133 cables. Every other wire on an 80-wire IDE cable is a ground. It's there to shield the data wires from one another.
When you bunch the individual wires up like that, you destroy the shielding. At high data transfer speed, you are going to get CRC errors due to interference, and this means lower performance as the IDE controller has to deal with them.
Rounded cables are suitable for low speed applications like CDROM and floppy drives.
"The reason this is useful is that you have a larger bus bandwidth, not that it benefits any one particular device."
Too bad Serial ATA is a point-to-point bus. One device per host interface.
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