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how long do you think SATA will last?

slugg

slugg

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Just a thought... ATA lasted quite a long time due to the backwards compatibility with slower hardware (ATA 66 worked on an ATA133 controller, etc).

Personally I have no clue about SATA as I've never owned an SATA drive 🙁

What do you think?
 
I'd imagine that it'll be a fair while. PATA to SATA was something of a sea change, and backwards compatibility would have been effectively impossible to impliment; but I imagine that there will be a fair few years of occasional bus speed bumps to go before anything terribly exciting happens. If nothing else, we'll have to see a wholesale move to something significantly faster than our current hard drives for a new bus to matter at all.
 
Not going to happen anytime soon.

Drive technology is at a standstill. Speeds for CD/DVD drives have been hanging around the same range for years now, and HD's aren't boosting their speed in any significant amount and haven't in years.

Honestly, the difference in bootup speed between my 2.6ghz Intel with a old 150 gigabyte ATA100 drive and my 4200+ with a brand new SATA 250gig NCQ drive is only a couple seconds. There's at least 3 years between the two computers, and no appriciable increase in speed.

We need a new approach to storage, whether it's some form of modified solid state or something brand new. Personally, I suspect the best possible approach would be a solid state setup with a standard HD backup that gets written to independently during downtime when the solid state isn't being accessed. I'm talking gigs of solid state here though.

Because to be honest, there's really not a whole lot else they can do with traditional Hard Drives, at least not at the moment. Solid State is the path of least resistance right now.
 
Wasn't SATA supposed to take over USB and even the PCI lanes throughout the motherboard? Maybe I'm just a little off as it's 4am here but back before sata hit, they were planning to double the speed every other year or 2 years right? In that case, SATA will be here to stay for some time. Even with holographic storage, doesn't that just take the mechanical part of a drive away? You'd need an interface still..
 
That's true.

As long as they're able to boost the path no matter what SATA would be sufficient, provided no new tech is needed.

I guess I went slightly OT with the stuff on drive speed. We still need something new though...
 
something new would be preferred but solid state most likely will not come down to the affordable range in the next 3 years. stick to your current hard drive, OP, or upgrade, either way you'll be fine.
 
Originally posted by: n7
Holographic storage is gonna pwn us all...if it ever comes out in mass...
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Yeah but that's gonna be quite a while, I don't think it will make it to the public for a long time if it ever does.
 
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