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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. Re:Isn't SATA small enough? by PaintyThePirate · · Score: 5, Informative

    I assume that by "use smaller connectors", they meant that SATA is smaller than the connectors currently being used in mini hard drives. While power usage may be limited more by the drive itself, size may not be. Take a look at the currect standard for 1 inch hard drives. It needs 52 pins on it. SATA in contrast, only needs 8, plus whatever is needed for power.

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  2. Re:Linux support for Serial ATA by taylortbb · · Score: 5, Informative

    Any distro based on the 2.6 kernel series will support SATA (Mandrake 10 (my reccomendation), SuSE 9.1, Fedora Core 2, etc.). I wonder if this will make it harder for people to port Linux to mini devices, it took a while just for normal SATA support in the kernel.

  3. Re:Linux support for Serial ATA by Nachtfalke · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have a box running Fedora Core 2 and a Silicon Image 3114 based S-ATA controller, works like a charm, no extra drivers necessary.
    And I found http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html to be a very interesting read, helped me decide on the Dawicontrol DC-154 controller.