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Serial ATA for Mini Hard Drives Planned

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sata-to-go dept.

Lord_Slepnir writes "Cnet is reporting on a consortium of companies that wish to develop a Serial ATA hard drive interface for Miniature hard drives called CE-ATA. The goal of these new drives would be to cut power consumption and use smaller connectors, not to provide an increase in speed. 'The purpose is to design a new interface tailored to the consumer electronics and handheld gadget segment,' said Intel's principal engineer for CE-ATA, Knut Grimsrud. The consortium consists of Intel, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Marvell Semiconductor, Seagate Technology, and Toshiba America Information Systems."

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  1. Did I miss something? by Ghoser777 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, no reference to uses with the iPod?

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  2. Re:Going Too Far? by Cylix · · Score: 4, Funny

    You will never catch me saying, "Mine is smaller then yours."

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  3. Typo by Mr2cents · · Score: 2, Funny

    that should be SE-ATA, CE-ATA refers to cerial-ATA, an effort to make harddisks out of old bread crumbs..

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