When and where to buy new serial ata hard drive?

[p0rtmonkey]

I'm upgrading my system and the motherboard i'm putting in has support for the new serial ata drives. I've been looking around the net for a bit and I can't seem to find them anywhere. The motherboard is an Asus p4s8x. Anyone know where I could get my hands on one of these hard drives!?!

 

[Viper GTS]

There are none on the market yet.

Seagate's Barracuda V should be one of the first, and it will be a screamer - 60 GB platters, 7200 RPM, and an 8 mb cache ala WD Special Edition drives.

Should be nice.

🙂

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[p0rtmonkey]

WOAH 😀

That sounds intising.... anyone have a clue as to when they might be available?

 

[Ryan]

Yea, but you won't be able to see any performance increases until chipset makers start integrating SerialATA into their chips. Until then, the speed is limited by the PCI bus.

 

[LucJoe]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Yea, but you won't be able to see any performance increases until chipset makers start integrating SerialATA into their chips. Until then, the speed is limited by the PCI bus.

Umm.. didn't he just say that his motherboard has it integrated? Does that mean that the motherboard has integrated support for serial ATA, but it somehow goes through the PCI bus for some reason?

Also, anyone know when these drives are going to come out? I'm looking at getting that new shuttle board with support

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: LucJoe

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Yea, but you won't be able to see any performance increases until chipset makers start integrating SerialATA into their chips. Until then, the speed is limited by the PCI bus.

Umm.. didn't he just say that his motherboard has it integrated? Does that mean that the motherboard has integrated support for serial ATA, but it somehow goes through the PCI bus for some reason?

Also, anyone know when these drives are going to come out? I'm looking at getting that new shuttle board with support

Yes, that's exactly what it means. Unless a chipset vendor comes out with a chipset that has SATA support without the use of an add on chipset that utilizes the PCI bus SATA will be limited by PCI's 133 mb/s transfer rate.

Currently, onboard RAID controllers and the like reside on the PCI bus. Devices do not physically have to be plugged into a PCI slot to utilize the PCI bus.

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