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Nope, no cable but they carry those for ~$8-$9. Might be able to pick up the cable cheaper at a Mom and Pop store somewhere.

It's not unrealistic once it gets its own dedicated channel off of the PCI bus and/or once a new PCI standard is introduced (which should be done before the bandwidth of SATA first doubles in 2005)

Well, most manufacturers, Maxtor included, has dropped most of their normal IDE drive warranties to 1 year. Most manufacturers are offering up to 3 year warranties on SATA drives and it appears WD included a 5 year warranty for their retail raptors. One could only guess why this is but I'm...

The Serial ATA drives are nice, even if they aren't the 10k raptors, since they use less energy, they're hot swappable (as long as the controller supports it) and most manufacturer's are offering longer warranties on them then regular IDE drives.

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