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Serial ATA Drives Mature and Get Faster

Posted by timothy on from the one-step-at-a-time dept.

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. Notes from the field...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has anyone out there actually used serial ATA out there? Any stories, good/bad?

  2. Re:Not that promissing... by realnowhereman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Except they're talking about their previous look, not this one. Read the rest of the article.

    The performance of this drive is raved about and their only complaint seemed to be the one year warranty instead of three.

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  3. Re:Just one question... by mchasal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's called serial because the data comes down the cable serially, that is 1 bit after another. As opposed to parallel data where a bunch of bits come down the cable at once, that's why current drives use those multi-conductor ribbon cables.