Serial ATA, Here and Now

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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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nice review by Phosphor3k · 2002-12-30 16:24 · Score: 5, Funny

All I get is
We are having major server problems at the moment. Something is up - we will fix this ;)

Something is up? Thats a nice way of saying their server is dying under the load of thousands of geeks.
1. Re:nice review by sporty · 2002-12-30 16:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It could be a Serial ATA drive failure :)
  
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Re:Conclusion of article by p4 · 2002-12-30 16:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Pros:
Very Quiet
Sending serially, one bit at a time, is quieter than in parallel? I didn't know bits made so much noise ...
Re:Same experience... by sweetooth · 2002-12-30 16:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe he submitted the article ;)
Now we only need one more letter !!! by Zork+the+Almighty · 2002-12-30 20:22 · Score: 3, Funny

OK quick, we actually have an acronym which is close to being a word here, so everyone try to think of what we can tack onto the END of Serial ATA, preference is given to anything that starts with an "N" !

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Re:What I really want to see by The+J+Kid · 2002-12-31 04:18 · Score: 2, Funny

My portable music player, My PDA and My desktop

You work for Microsoft don't you?

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