On 10/23/05, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I was referring to the next generation SATA (as authored by > the SATA II organization) + NCQ. Some vendors are eyeing to implement > the 3Gb/s (which isn't really necessary for , neither would be NCQ) > which can jack up the price a bit from current SATA implementations. > Other proposed enhancements include asynchronous notification, true > hotplug support (supposedly all SATA should support this... then again > this depends on your SATA controller chipset), staggered spin-up, > et.al.
I see. A 7200 RPM at a normal price can't pump out that much anyway. I'm interested in how NCQ as it stands in these retail-priced drives can multitask in a Linux environment. > > > By the time this is out, the Opteron should be down to its normal > > price of <$200. Sweet. > > I really long for this day... but it isn't going to be happening soon, > especially when Intel's dual core Xeon won't be around for quite some > time. By the time this happens, socket 940 would've been near > obsoletion as AMD's transitioning to another socket type by next year. > I still couldn't buy anything more than the Opteron 246, as anything > beyond that is freaking expensive already even with the existence of > dual core processors, as AMD these days virtually has no competition > in the enterprise x86-64 market. They are sub-$200 here: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=opteron+socket+939 As it looks like AMD is doing some repositioning: Athlon64 for gamers/enthusiasts, Opteron for business workstations. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
