Serial ATA getting closer

[FatBurger]

Can you taste it? I'll be glad for the smaller cables, if nothing else.

<A HREF="http://hardocp.com/article2.html?article_id=298&pg_num=1" target="_new">Soyo's PR</A> about their motherboards with Serial ATA.

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[orbz]

Does this mean we'll start seeing serial ata hard drives sooner than later?

Ahhh the wait for new technology.

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[logger]

Great find! Cant wait for that! What do you think the performance difference will be?

 

[dhlucke]

Apparently it's just smaller cables (maybe longer??). Not a performance improvement.

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[Kennyshin]

I haven't seen any test result of Serial ATA RAID configuration. Since the Serial ATA first generation's total bandwidth is 1500Mbps compared to USB 2.0's 480Mbps and IEEE 1394a's 400Mbps, it has a lot more potential.

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[FatBurger]

First generation is still ATA-133. The bottleneck is still the drives, not the interface. Cables will be small like a USB cable, not a huge IDE one. Shouldn't be any difference in length, there's no reason for it. It will probably eliminate any differences between length, as with current cables (shorter is better).

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[logger]

Ahh, I see. I was thinking of some new drive tech, that I heard of before. I was talking with a computer tech the other day and he was going off about some magnetic hard drive with no moving parts, he said comp would boot in about 2 seconds. Is this someting thats years down the road before it hits the streets? When do you think we will get the "next generation" of performance in hard drives?

 

[Harisahmed]

I was talking with a computer tech the other day and he was going off about some magnetic hard drive with no moving parts, he said comp would boot in about 2 seconds. Is this someting thats years down the road before it hits the streets? When do you think we will get the "next generation" of performance in hard drives?

Not likely anytime soon. Your tech might have been thinking about MRAM, but that isn't HD tech. The last article I read about it showed that they are working with modules for use in products like phones/PDAs.

 

[logger]

ok, I am learning alot here, Thanks. So no big performance increases in hard drives anytime soon, maybe I should try raid.
Thanks

 

[FatBurger]

Solid state drives are around, but expensive. There are kits that let you make your own using normal SDRAM, but obviously it's expensive for any decent size (think of buying 60GB of PC133).

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[Crashman]

too bad they didn't simply go with Fibre Channel instead of adding yet another interface and all the developement cost that go with it.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[Matisaro]

Eh, I dont know, 5 512 sticks of pc100 would be about 300 bucks, thats not bad for a 2.5 gig solid state drive imo.

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[FatBurger]

No, but it's still $300 for something that you can really only put your OS on.

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