Dear MichaelRichard, Check out http://www.maxtor.com/en/technologies/serial_ata/index.htm Serial ATA is the way foreward it seems.
Glad to get your response ...Surprised its the only one though <G>
I have followed your suggestion and looked at the specs of Serial ATA and whilst potential data transfer speed is good with a maximum of 150MB per sec the seek times are not going to be great and certainly not in the league of the Rocket Drive specs below.
PERFORMANCE SPECS Access time: 0.6μs I/Os per second: 100,000* Compliance: PCI 2.2 full Capacity: 4 GB Burst data rate: 132 MB/s Sustained data rate: 80 to 100 MB/s
Looking at 320 SCSI with a seek rate of around the 4ms range and a maximum transfer rate of 320 MB per sec surely there simply is no contest? These are I imagine internal transfer rates. However I would be interested in knowing how important seek speed rather than data transfer rate is when using a drive as a PhotoShop scratch disk. I am appealing to the knowledgeable Prodigers to fill me in on this.
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