On Tuesday September 2 2003 10:35 am, Frankie wrote:
> > OTOH, I don't believe SATA is that much if any improvement
> > over ATA/133. I've read Net reports to that affect. Some
> > Mandrake users have posted SATA hdparm -Tt numbers on various
> > groups an forums, an they're all less then the numbers my
> > ATA/133 puts out. Actually most of 'em were closer to what my
> > ATA/100 drive gets.
>
> At the moment there is no real improvement over ATA drives
> because the SATA drives are really just ATA drives wtih a SATA
> interface tacked on.. when they start designing drives around the
> SATA standard, things will pick up and we'll have game on.
>
> rgds
>
> Franki
Yes, that info plus some other stuff I didn't really understand
was in the Net reports I've read. Also it was predicted that before
SATA catches on, we'll be movin into PCI-eXpress ;) Now to my
mind, that's where the improvement was always needed. IE, gettin
off the old an tired 33mhz PCI bus.
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