SATA300 in the news

[thorin]

All good news:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15443

Thorin

 

[kd2777]

Thats cool, but can we use all of the 1.5 now......

KD

 

[JBT]

150 Probably not but I would imagine if you could string them up enough with a massive RAID array you could get close.

 

[Alkaline5]

Connection flexibility seems to be the main innovation:

The options will include an internal "multilane" cable and connector assembly for streamlining connections between multiple internal host ports and internal devices or short backplane; an external consumer cable and connector; and an external multi-lane datacentre cable and connector to connect S-ATA channels in a data centre

I'm not entirely sure what that means to me, but it looks like external hot swapping is finally on the way.

 

[randomlinh]

i'd like to see all the features of SATA start to come in native form before we get all hyped up for the next generation....

 

[EeyoreX]

It's too bad they decided to go with a headline like

Intel says Serial ATA signal speed doubled

At least that is my opinion. I personally feel SATA should be sold on the features other than speed. Current hard drives can't even utilize the full speed of the current spec, so touting this speed is useless except to sell consumers "faster" hard drives that won't really be all that much faster, at least not due to the interface. The marginal speed increases gained by better algorithms and platter densities are not due to SATA. Just my .02.

\Dan

 

[Pariah]

If it's said enough, maybe people will start catching on. SATAII will allow more than one drive per controller, so all the extra bandwidth can be utilized if necessary.

 

[EeyoreX]

If it's said enough, maybe people will start catching on. SATAII will allow more than one drive per controller, so all the extra bandwidth can be utilized if necessary.

I am aware of this. I also am aware of the fact that the current specs are barely maxed out. So, unless you have a whole bunch of drives on the same channel being accessed at the same time, this is hardly an issue. In a few speciallized instances this will matter. For everyday Average Joe PC User this won't matter. Neither will it matter for a large population of the Enthusiast PC User for that matter. I still maintain SATA II should be marketed based on it's other strengths, rather than mostly theoretical speed gains that may be had in a few people's computers.

\Dan

 

[Pariah]

Within a year, we will probably see 2 drives exceeding the limit of SATA I which isn't really a whole bunch. The bandwidth issue won't really matter to most people, but with multiple drives on the same port, having only 2 ports on a motherboard will be far less limiting, than it is right now with SATA I. With SATA II bandwidth a user can put their optical drives on one port and up to 4 hard drives on the other without worrying about bandwidth constraints.

 

[hahher]

are connectors for sata 150 poor (doesn't feel snug)? will they fix this in sata300?