Faulty Marvell Chips Delay SATA 6G Launch

Vigile writes "The SATA 6G standard offers more than simply a faster 6.0 Gb/s data throughput speed, to wit: improved NCQ support, better power management, and a new connector to support 1.8-inch drives. While modern-day, spindle-based hard drives struggle to keep up with SATA 3G speeds, modern SSDs are nearly saturating the existing standard, and a move to SATA 6G was welcome in the hardware community. It looks like that technology will be delayed, though. The only chip supporting the standard today, the Marvell 88SE9123, is having major issues. Motherboard vendors including ASUS and Gigabyte, which had planned on releasing SATA 6G technology using the chip on Intel Lynnfield platform motherboards later this summer, are having to remove the Marvell 88SE9123 and redesign their boards at the last minute due to significant speed and reliability issues."

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Re:Maybe they should stick...

[Red Flayer]

Maybe they should stick to comic books.

Too obvious. Every slashdotter worth his salt thought the same thing.

The trick is to use the Marvell/Marvel joke in a creative or more complicated way that surprises the reader.

Ex. Well, that's their problem for using an unreliable supplier... they should redesign the spec to work off batteries, so they could use DC chips.

See, now I've included the obvious comic book reference, and taken it a step further with an up-to-date (current -- get it?) joke, thus giving it a bit of originality that may not have occurred to every single slashdotter. Note the subtle influence of the word "supplier" to hint at the AC/DC relationship. It's these word choices that really make a joke work.

Alternatively (get it?), you could get extra humor out of the situation by working in a reference to the Tesla/Einstein argument over power supply -- this plays to your audience, since those who get the reference will feel smug superiority over being part of the nerd elite.

So, you could end up with the following joke (which I find (a biased source, of course), much funnier than your obvious one-liner that appears to have been aimed at firstpostitude):

Well, that's their problem for using an unreliable supplier like Marvell... they should redesign their spec to work off batteries, so they could use DC chips. Hell, even 100 years ago Einstein knew better than to trust that other kind of current.

e that this last version also plays heavily on the AC-DC sexuality metaphor, and takes advantage of its subconscious action on the part of some of the readers.

To cut a long post short, please make a better effort next time... I'm sure you have it in you, and I, for one, welcome more truly funny posts on slashdot.