Also Sprach Steve Follmer: > > The current eWeek has an article which discusses this issue. > http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=28513,00.asp > > While ATA's potential to augment or even replace tape for backup is > great, products are just beginning to roll out. Vendors including > Seagate Technology LLC and Storage Technology Corp. are expected to > release drives later this year that are based on Version 2 of the Serial > ATA specification. The new version will allow these drives to operate at > rates of 1.5GB per second, nearly twice the speed of the current > Parallel ATA interface version, known as ATA 100. >
It should be 1.5 Gbps not 1.5GBps. Still quite respectable. More important is that Serial ATA will be hub- and switchable so you can build topologies similar to Fibre Channel, and additional SCSI features like tag command queuing are going into the Serial ATA spec. One wonders whether at some point Serial ATA and SCSI will merge altogether. In addition there will be cluster/SAN filesystems to take advantage of the storage pooling, including open source projects like OpenGFS. ---- C. Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Public Key registered at pgp.mit.edu "Your Pithy Aphorism Here!" Or finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
