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.'"

Comments

I want a

[edbarrett]

Serial ATA Network.

Re:too bad that

[stratjakt]

> All data goes through the PCI bus...and it's bandwidth is only 133MB/sec theoretical

PCI-X?

> Ever read the actual throughput specs on a drive? The media throughput is not much more than 40MB/sec!!!

4 of them in RAID 0?

> Add this all up and what do you get?

150Mb/s peak bandwidth to and from my drives.