26 Oct
2004
26 Oct
'04
18:02
Doug McGarrett
I've been hearing about SATA drives, lately. What are they, and can they plug into a regular drive controller, or do they need some special controller card, or what?
They must have some advantage over whatever we should call normal drives, so what is it?
Many disk array manufacturers have accepted them as a replacement for SCSI. This *drastically* cuts down prices of multiterabyte solutions. Arrays with ATA disks were available in the past but big manufacturers viewed them as unreliable toys and recommended SCSI instead. SATA disks have changed this attitude and, in high performance computing, SATA disks are becoming the mainstream. -- A.M.