On Monday October 25 2004 11:06 pm, Dana J. Laude wrote:
On Monday 25 October 2004 20:56, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, list gurus:
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?
SATA - A specification for consumer hard drive connections that boosts the data transfer rate up to 150MB/second. In addition, it changes IDE/ATA from a parallel interface requiring 40 separate wires to connect components to a serial interface requiring only 6 wires. 2x and 4x versions of Serial ATA double and quadruple the speed of Serial ATA.
The advantage to SATA is not just RAID, but even a single drive SATA box provides a MUCH cheaper FAST system without the much higher cost of SCSI, which IMHO is WAY over-priced. Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."