[plug] Serial ATA (was: OpenOffice quicklaunch)

[Cameron Patrick]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 05:48:26PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
| SATA is mainly nice because of its hot-pluggability, nice-to-work-with 
| cabling, airflow improvements, and lack of reliance on the awful 
| "master/slave" scheme. The speed just isn't much of a benefit, and quite 
| frankly I don't think there will be a drive that can properly flood 
| ATA100 before SATA rev 2 comes out at 300+mbps.

I was under the impression that (a) most current SATA hardware uses
PATA-to-SATA converter chips anyway; and (b) the PCI bus has less bandwidth
than SATA anyway - 133 MB/s vs 150 MB/s IIRC.

Cameron.