Re: Time to Upgrade - Serial ATA Anyone?

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:59:16PM +0800, John wrote:
> On Sunday 22 September 2002 00:21, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > My current understanding about Serial ATA is that there is currently no
> > performance increase over "Normal" ATA, but there should be in the
> > 
> 
> I think the main benefits right now:
> Bigger drives
> Hot swap
> Eliminates master/slave bus contention

ATA 133 is 133MB/s whereas Serial ATA is supposed to start out at 150MB/s.
That's according to the literature.  3ware has some good info as well as what
appear to be some pretty cool Serial ATA RAID 0,1,5 controllers.

   http://www.3ware.com/serialfaq/welcome.htm

jason

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