Serial ATA, Here and Now

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?"

Comments

Ahem.

[Doktor Memory]

Is it just me, or were the first several pages of this "article" written by cutting and pasting directly from Seagate's own product description and SATA white papers?

That they then split the article out over a zillion "pages" to pump up their ad impression numbers is insult on top of injury.

Re:Is hotswap relevant?

[TiMac]

Note that I said "theoretically" and that in the *future*, SATA will push the speed limits. I believe PCI-X and Hypertransport technologies will make your comments about the current PCI bus completely irrelevant.

I could be wrong though--wouldn't be the first time ;)

Re:'bout time

[AtrN]

we had planned on building in a Serial ATA RAID for fault tolerance

Tolerating failure and using a first release of something don't really go together. Best to wait a while and let others find out what does or doesn't work properly.