Serial ATA for Mini Hard Drives Planned

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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Re:Step in the right direction.

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Why the hell everything can be small, silent and light, and PC just can't?

You answered your own question later - "I know that I can buy VIA C3, but it is too slow for me," and "just give me system with speed like now (Athlon XP 1800) and do not set price 3x higher." Fast CPUs generate more heat.

Engineers have a saying. Fast, reliable, cheap: pick any two.

Ever try to expand or upgrade your DVD player or palmtop? Do you like fast, high capacity storage? Do you play 3D games?

If you don't need those things, then get a Micro-ATX PC with a slow, cool running 5400 RPM hard disk, a C3 CPU, and stop complaining. And your comment about floppies makes no damn sense. They have these things called CD-RW drives, ever heard of them? Besides, you have a pendrive on your PC already. Are you complaining because everyone doesn't have one?