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Serial ATA Drives Mature and Get Faster

MojoDog writes "Serial ATA drives are still as scarce as hen's teeth but what models are trickling out from Seagate and Maxtor, are beginning to look promising. This article and performance analysis shows the new DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA Hard Drive putting up some impressive figures in standard SATA 150 and SATA 150 RAID 0 configurations."

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  1. Re:Not that promissing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good. you can post the part of an article that refers to part of a previous article, completely irrelevant to the current one.

    For your next trick, try posting comments about Win3.11 when the review of the next Windows appears.

    Also, make sure when Mac OSX Panther comes out that you refer to disappointments with System 7.

  2. Painful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    what models are trickling out from Seagate and Maxtor, are beginning to look promising.

    The sound you can hear is the echo of the breaking of the hearts of ten thousand grammar nazis.

  3. Re:Hidden wiring/tidiness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'd love to see how others have handled their tidy up jobs.

    Well, depending on where you're "working" I recommend using a dry tissue to clean up the mess first and then go over the area with a damp tissue afterwards to sanitize the area. You may have repeat these steps in order to clean up the entire mess.

  4. Re:Grrrrr Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I know how you feel. I purchased a Duron 1100 just last year, and now AMD have brought out the AthlonXP 2100+! They should provide a new motherboard and CPU cheap, as I recently purchased what is now obsolete technology. I mean, its only fair, isn't it?

  5. Re:"Per say" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Huh huh huh... in Finnish "perse" means ass.

  6. Re:Bluetooth Wires! (or no wires) by mgv · · Score: 4, Funny

    This may sound silly, but how cool would it be to have some kind of wireless cabling system for connection between all pc devices (like bluetooth) i know its totaly inpracticle, but u could have one of those cool induction charging matts with a motherboard, hard drive, cdrom, etc just sitting on it with no wires! very trippy 8-)

    Until your little sister walks in and picks up the hard drive for your web server to make a good doorstop. :)

    Michael

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  7. Re:Slightly Off-Topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Make Use longer and softer wires, and tape/tag them down to surfaces inside the machine. If they have to wind around components on the motherboard to reach the mobo power connector, then do that.

    It works, and looks seriously cool, like some bizarre tentacled thing stretching across a vast post-apocalyptic landscape of capacitors, ICs, smt components and tracks.

  8. Re:Bluetooth Wires! (or no wires) by creamandchives · · Score: 1, Funny

    but with long range bluetooth, it would still work (except may need new power source... mini nuclear fusion?)

  9. Re:Toms Hardware by amorsen · · Score: 3, Funny
    Summary: "Extremely High Performance, Excessively Short Warranty Period"
    "The light that burns twice as bright lasts half as long, and you have burned so very, very bright, Roy!"
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  10. Re:Not that promising... by dirkdidit · · Score: 4, Funny
    if anyone wants to explain the physics behind that


    Freezer Gnomes. The same ones who make the ice disappear and food get freezer burn. The do wonders with gum in hair as well. Amazing little creatures if you ask me.
  11. Re:Grrrrr Apple by jridley · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, manufacturers should stop coming out with new stuff, it only makes people who bought stuff last week feel bad.

    Either that, or they should provide a roadmap of all technologies they plan on releasing for the next 10 years, with a timetable.

    Oh yeah, and be sure to include that schedule for unscheduled downtime and natural disasters. CNN might want a copy.

  12. Re:serial ATA rox! by xyote · · Score: 2, Funny

    So instead of have to run a separate utility to screw up your filesystem by replacing bad blocks with good ones so there will be no indication that data was lost or corrupted, scsi will corrupt your files for you automatically.

  13. Re:'Maturing' offers more promise than 'innovation by Carbonite · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...industry visionaries who predict teraflops of holographic storage...

    Yes, I would have some doubt in visionaries who measure storage in floating point operations per second.

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  14. How quaint. by fbg111 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm waiting for quantum optical storage cubes. Solid state seems so crude. ;)

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  15. Re:The size of future computers... by ceeam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well - if you wish so, you can put your head into microwave right now without waiting for the future to come.

  16. Re:Seems like they say wait... by Sgs-Cruz · · Score: 2, Funny
    I was planning on waiting anyhow, this just seems to confirm my original instincts. What does not kill me just postpones the inevitable.
    . People, people, people. You have to start checking for conflicts between your sig and your message. I mean, using Serial ATA might shorten the life of your data or something, but it won't kill you!
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  17. Re:Get SCSI by nmg196 · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Get the Cheetah 15k.3 and you'll never look back!

    Warning: Never put Seagate Cheetah drives where there are people. They sound like a circular saw trying to cut though a piece of reinforced concrete. Really not a very nice sound. At all.

    Nick...