> Has anyone thought about serial ATA? I don't see any reason why
> someone can't build a high quality RAID controller to use these
> drives, and it appears that they are building high quality drives
> for serial ATA. A friend told me there was at least one such card on
> the market already, though I forget what it was.
Show me a Serial ATA card with 128 MB of RAM and I'll consider it.
Until then, SCSI continues to be the only way to build servers with
the throughput our customers demand; SATA and ATA/133 cards are not
going to cut it.
> If you ask me, SCSI is an overpriced racket.
Well, that depends on your performance target. Certainly, if you don't
need the performance, it can seem like you're throwing money away.
--Sandy
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