SATA - Serial ATA HDDs, HDDs of future

[The Coolest]

Hey anyone heard of this? they are going to propably be ATA 150 and their usage will not be around 20 percent like our current drives, claim to have 133MB/s MAX transfer speed when it doesn't get over 33MB/s those will have something like 60% usage that will mean about 4 times faster drives, and the cable will be pretty small and flexibale so it won't interrupt any air flow.

 

[NASsoccer]

do you have a link? it would be a good read.

 

[The Coolest]

I'm sorry. But I read it in PC Magazine on hebrew, I think its the previous month release

 

[nikhsub1]

Yes serial ATA is definately the next revolution in ATA. This has been in development for some time now. I would'nt expect to see serial ATA for about another year or so. Then, I think it may take some time to work out some bugs.

 

[Tecumseh]

I read somewhere that Intel is pushing the SATA stuff
back to 2003. Many in the industry wonder why we need
SATA when USB 2.0 is here.

No current generation mechanical HDD can serve up
150 MB/s and wont any time soon. In SATA each
device has it's own separate cable. You don't chain
them like ATA or SCSI.

The current 33 MHz, 32-bit PCI bus has a max thruput
of 132 MB/s so if you have a SATA PCI card you wont
be able to go over that.

The 66 MHz, 64-bit PCI slots coming to a motherboard
near you soon don't have this BW limitation. BUT you
would need a 4-port, 4-Drive SATA-RAID card to get
something useful.

 

[Yakbak]

http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.html?i=14188&t=an

 

[Jon]

www.serialata.org

 

[NASsoccer]

www.serialata.org

thanks a bunch