Western Digital to debut Serial ATA at Comdex:
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Nov. 12, 2001 - Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), a leader in personal computing storage, today announced it will showcase hard drives using Serial ATA during Comdex - November 12-16 in Las Vegas. In a live demonstration with Intel, Western Digital will demonstrate fully-compliant prototype Serial ATA hard drives with native hot-plugability.
Some features of Serial ATA:
Announced in August, Serial ATA is projected to be used to connect such internal storage devices as hard disks, DVDs, CD-R/Ws to the motherboard in desktop and mobile PCs, value servers and network storage. Serial ATA is intended to allow each drive to communicate directly with the processor, allowing for easier integration of Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers and enterprise storage applications.
Serial ATA is also expected to improve upon current ATA cable limitations. Aside from that, the details are still rather vague. The press release can be found
here.
