On Friday 16 February 2007 01:20, Dieter wrote: > > > Is SATA terminated. > > I don't know, but I assume it is. There's no reason not to. > Perhaps the PATA "designers" (cough) were trying to spare users > the horrible task of adding/removing terminators depending on > where the drive was on the cable.
Never attribute to attempts at userfriendliness that which is adequately explained as cost savings :-). Terminators cost money, and most desktop pc's have one harddisc and one CD drive right next to the mainboard. So they used the cheapest thing that would get the job done in a significant number of cases. Lourens
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