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Serial ATA Technology Explained
Mike Parsons writes "Explosive Labs has an interesting article on Serial ATA . Here is a quote: 'In the rapidly moving computer industry, there are rarely the kinds of revolutionary changes like what is about to take place in secondary storage segment. Soon the hard drives and configuration methods that have existed since the origins of the personal computer will change forever. The basic IDE technology has been around for nearly twenty years. When the lifetimes of other computer components like CPUs and video are measured in months, twenty years ago seems like prehistory.'"
Where are my drives?
I got a shiny new SATA RAID controller on my new motherboard, now when the hell am I gonna get a couple of 80 gig cheap, fast SATA drives to put into a striped set?
huh? huh?
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> All of IDE's shortcomings are fixed by SCSI
You mean the oversized 40-conductor ribbon cables are solved by 68 conductor ones?
> If more people used it, it would be a cheaper solution
Heh, sure it would.
> 15k rpm scsi drives get seek times in the low three range--that's three times faster than your average 5400 rpm ide hdd.
And 10x more expensive.
You are the first SCSI fanboy I've ever seen.
Now bring on the cheap!
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You're correct. Consider the length of time the original male-female coupling system has been around...
narrower flexible cables is all the SATA has to offer? its like switching from a two-headed screw driver standard to a philips one. the heads are different but the screw gose in the same way. give me a few features of SCSI in an affordable package and then your talking.
.. 2 hard disks, a dvd and cd writer later your computer would have enough ribbons to host a toddlers birthday party. and to get rid of the freaking master/slave shite ... ahhh. damn it I want SATA!
on the other hand: installing more ram/new-cpu wouldn't be such a pain
Why are they wasting their time on this ancient technology? Serial is too slow to sync my damn Palm Pilot. I can't even imagine what it would be like to try and transfer 60GB of media files over it. These companies should just accept that USB is the way of the future (no extra power required either!) and get to work on something that stands a chance of selling.
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I think that this "standard" will be around for a very long time...(andd I have no complaints about that =:p
Psst.
Don't look now, but you're momma dont drive the hi-tech industry.
I do.
This post is an *excellent* example of what watching too much super-fast cutting TV (like MTV) can do to you.
Well, there are other standards available, which aren't as functual when it comes to the result, but enthusiasts say that the procedure is just as good, or better.
I quote:
SCSI devices last forever, or until they break,
I can top that:
I will live forever, until I die.
What was your point again?
Please, for the love of everything that's geek... DON'T use "drop" and "hard drive" in the same sentance.