SerialATA Pics

[thorin]

Ok we've all oggled pics of the small cables but checkout how thin these drives are (they appear to be barely thicker then the SerialATA signal cable):

Linkage

Thorin

 

[MrBond]

Wow, those are tiny I wonder what the capacity of those is?

 

[NOX]

Here is a computer streaming 4 large movie files >200MBs each, no caching going on there. All are being played very smoothly so SATA is doing its job nicely.

WOW, can't wait. Does anyone know if they are coming out with a controller card for SATA?

I'm not really sure If I want to up grade my motherboard (or maybe I should).

 

[SteelCityFan]

Originally posted by: NOX
WOW, can't wait. Does anyone know if they are coming out with a controller card for SATA?

I'm not really sure If I want to up grade my motherboard (or maybe I should).

Look at the images... and the caption..

"Here is a working system with two drives installed through a PCI card Right above the connection to the hard drive is a new power connector as well."

 

[Jgtdragon]

Interesting. My current scsi system is awesome, but might jump to this depending on the price when it comes out.

 

[MangoX]

damn! this is why i hate technology... you never know when the technology you buy today is going to be obsolete. I just got a AT7 mAX mainly cause it has 4 ports for RAID and I was going to purchase another maxtor 80gb soon to compliment the raid controller, and now my board doesn't even support sata. i'd rather get a controller card for it. but then again controller cards are pretty expensive that i'd rather upgrade my motherboard. i've seen ata133 cards for around 90$ CDN from promise

 

[SocrPlyr]

Azn
don't worry your setup won't be obsolete anytime soon, right now harddrives can't come close to the amount of bandwidth that you ata controllers can handle also all of the manufacturers will continue to make their drives. from what i have head seagate's next drive the barracuda V will come out in parallel ata first then serial ata shortly after when the market starts to pick up... although there are newer products out your hardware is far from obsolete. and for the lifetime of your computer you should have no problems finding parallel ata drives (they'll probably be carrying a price premium for the first year anyways...) people who are worried about their computer being outdated shouldn't ever buy one... it is a fact of the industry...

Josh

 

[vetteguy]

Are there any motherboards coming out in the near future with onboard SerialATA?

 

[Athlon4all]

Asus has a series of Mobo's coming that will feature AGP8X, and SATA. The P4S8X, the P4G8X, and A7N8X. All of them support SATA, and there are more coming fro, other mobo makers.

 

[Nocturnal]

nice, is this like equivilent to a scsi drive?

 

[hopeless879]

Are there any motherboards coming out in the near future with onboard SerialATA?

I read somewhere that Iwill has a mobo out with SATA support.

Can't wait until 2003 Hammer and SerialATA ......mmmmmmm

 

[NOX]

Originally posted by: SteelCityFan

Originally posted by: NOX
WOW, can't wait. Does anyone know if they are coming out with a controller card for SATA?

I'm not really sure If I want to up grade my motherboard (or maybe I should).

Look at the images... and the caption..

"Here is a working system with two drives installed through a PCI card Right above the connection to the hard drive is a new power connector as well."

Doh... didn't even see that. Thanks!

 

[thorin]

WOW, can't wait. Does anyone know if they are coming out with a controller card for SATA?

HighPoint has one out already.

Interesting. My current scsi system is awesome, but might jump to this depending on the price when it comes out.

You should read up on SerialAttachedSCSI.

About SAS

"Serial Attached SCSI is intended to directly address the future needs of these anticipated shifts in the market being driven by dense computing. This new proposed standard will provide the enterprise feature set of SCSI, including manageability, performance, reliability and scalability, with the serial interconnect offered with Serial ATA. This combination of features provides enterprise customers a highly robust data center solution, with a unique universal interconnect that provides a choice of incorporating a lower cost, desktop class Serial ATA product, or an enhanced Serial Attached SCSI product.

This choice will greatly improve data center manager's ability to provide the right type of storage based on quality of service requirements in the enterprise. If customers demand non-mission critical, scalable storage (where performance and 24x7 uptime is not required), a desktop class Serial ATA drive should be deployed. If users require server or storage subsystem access that is mission critical, where the quality of service is geared towards increased performance and reliability, users can take advantage of Serial Attached SCSI which will utilize the same physical connecter inside the subsystem. "

Are there any motherboards coming out in the near future with onboard SerialATA?

Yes look here:
AT News (SerialATA)

nice, is this like equivilent to a scsi drive?

Closer then current drives but not equivalent.

Thorin

 

[Goosemaster]

Seems as if the efficiency between drive and the system will change, but the efficiency on the disk will still be how scsi will differ

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: Jgtdragon
Interesting. My current scsi system is awesome, but might jump to this depending on the price when it comes out.

Give up my Cheetahs?? Sure, when someone pry's 'em from my cold dead hands!

I want to see some more benchmarks/pricing from SATA but it looks good. I love the smaller cables.

 

[Alphazero]

There are a few SATA controller cards and even a couple of motherboards that support it. However, they are not much use to anyone until actual drives are comercially available...

 

[thorin]

There are a few SATA controller cards and even a couple of motherboards that support it. However, they are not much use to anyone until actual drives are comercially available...

Current PATA drives can be connected to SATA controllers (cards or MBs) using an adapter.

Thorin

 

[Pariah]

Can someone post a link to somewhere where I can actually purchase something SATA? I looked around and couldn't find anything. I don't consider something available until I can actually buy it. We already know from WD and Seagate that drives won't be available until the fall, but I haven't seen any controllers or MB's with it yet either.

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: Pariah
Can someone post a link to somewhere where I can actually purchase something SATA? I looked around and couldn't find anything. I don't consider something available until I can actually buy it. We already know from WD and Seagate that drives won't be available until the fall, but I haven't seen any controllers or MB's with it yet either.

RocketRaid 1520 (SerialATA Controller Card) @ NewEgg

Thorin

 

[Pariah]

That's pretty cool. $150 for a 2 channel software RAID 0/1 controller seems a bit excessive though.

 

[thorin]

Yes I completely agree that it's excessive however with no-one to compete with yet it's no wonder HighPOint (and thus NewEgg) has the price jacked up.

Thorin

 

[NOX]

Originally posted by: thorin

Originally posted by: Pariah
Can someone post a link to somewhere where I can actually purchase something SATA? I looked around and couldn't find anything. I don't consider something available until I can actually buy it. We already know from WD and Seagate that drives won't be available until the fall, but I haven't seen any controllers or MB's with it yet either.

RocketRaid 1520 (SerialATA Controller Card) @ NewEgg

Thorin

OMG... maybe nothing really to be excited about, however I am. Just for the sake of trying this out I would buy it for $150.