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Serial ATA Reviewed
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Tom's Hardware has a review of a prototype Serial ATA drive from Western Digital. Here's a snip describing the advantages of Serial ATA:
There are two reasons why Serial ATA should easily become established. First, it offers a simpler, more efficient way of handling data than parallel ATA. Second, there is currently no pressure for a faster interface, and serial ATA offers exactly the same speed as UltraATA/133. Moreover, we are hardly likely to witness the arrival of hard disks with transfer rates anywhere near 100 MByte/s in the next few months.
The benefits of the new standard hit home as soon as you take the controller and disk drive out of their packages. The cable is nice and compact, which means the case will be tidier inside, allowing much better air circulation. Even inserting the connectors is foolproof and easy - a little too easy, perhaps, as the connector is apt to dislodge itself at the slightest touch and cause your system to reboot.
Although the performance of Serial ATA is nothing spectacular at this time, the benefits in flexibilty are needed. Read the review here.
Source: Slashdot.org
Posted by: Waffles
I read was reading PC World this morning, and in it they have a little article about these. It says that the serial drives will be debuting at 150 MBps and will have the ability to go up to 600 MBps. And it says that it runs on 3 volts instead of 5, so it will be more compatible with lower power motherboards and CPU's.
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