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Serial ATA, Here and Now

Posted by timothy on Monday December 30, 2002 @04:18PM from the smaller-faster-more dept.

Xev writes "We have heard a lot about this new technology; over at HEXUS.net they have a review of a retail drive. The first on the internet, it is interesting to see the performance of the unit as well as the hotswap feature, and other new functions. Is this a solution to cheaper hot swap?"

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99.998% percent error detectiom by Jeremy+Erwin · 2002-12-30 16:52 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Cyclic redundancy code detects all single and double-bit errors and ensures detection of 99.998% of all possible errors.

That simply means that out of 1 of every 50,000 error will get through. Considering that the device is designed to transport 150 million bytes per second, that's not so impressive.