Soon, Serial ATA will be out, and the bandwidth of it alone will exceed current PCI systems on a regular computer.
What a waste.
SCSI U160 has a similar problem (althought, at least, for drive to drive copying you can use the full bw) and U320 I don't even talk about.
The easiest, in my opinion, would be to bump the PCI speed to 66 MHz, which would not be that difficult to implement - and once implented and widely accepted, it would not even be that expensive.
I know, server motherboards already have this, but PCI in the current form has been around since the 486 days, and it is time to get something better on all platforms.
What a waste.
SCSI U160 has a similar problem (althought, at least, for drive to drive copying you can use the full bw) and U320 I don't even talk about.
The easiest, in my opinion, would be to bump the PCI speed to 66 MHz, which would not be that difficult to implement - and once implented and widely accepted, it would not even be that expensive.
I know, server motherboards already have this, but PCI in the current form has been around since the 486 days, and it is time to get something better on all platforms.
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