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When Will Serial-ATA Drives Be Out???

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Scroatdog

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Greetings all. I'm a new user here. I was referred by a fellow DellTalk user who said this site holds a wealth of knowledge. I came to realize that my once cutting-edge Dell Dimension 8200 is neither cutting-edge anymore, nor upgradeable whatsoever. Proprietary parts, no PC1066 RDRAM or hyperthreading support, the list goes on and on...

Anyhow, I've decided for my next computer I want to build it myself. I've read alot on the subject, and it doesn't seem to difficult. Besides, by doing so, I will be the master of my own destiny. I read about Serial-ATA, how the first generation will yield sustained rates of 150mb/s, the second generation 300 mb/s, and so on. I know there are a few motherboards and a few PCI cards with Serial-ATA connectors on them. However, I have been unable to find an drive manufacturer's roadmaps to figure out when the Serial drives will hit the streets. SIIG does make an IDE to Serial adapter to snap on the back of existing drives, but this is only capable of 133mb/s. Just wondering if any of you know anything about Serial ATA's debut. From all my research, I have concluded that the real bottleneck in any fast/well-equipped system such as mine is the hard drive. So, like I said at the beginning of this diatribe, I want to build my own using the Serial-ATA capability. I am also looking at one of the Koolance cases, with a water-cooling system installed. I am unable to overclock anything on this computer. I imagine once I build mine, I may want to dabble a bit. But noise will be a big issue and I will want the system to be as quiet and stable as possible.

Any thoughts??? Thanks in advancce
 
The vendors that the company I work for uses say they'll have them around the beginning of 03' and we usually get stuff just as it's coming out... so I think it's safe to assume that this is correct.
 
Keep in mind that Serial ATA offers better Theoretical max transfer. Single hard disk drives don't use any where near 100MB/sec let alone 150.

Good luck on your first PC build. Keep in mind that water cooling isn't the easiest thing to set-up for a first-timer, even with a pre-installed Koolance system. Hope it goes well for you, though.
 
According to the official SerialATA.org faq sometime in 2001. We probably will see some trickle in before Xmas, but I don't think we'll see large available quantities until next year. Unless you are dead-set on the smaller cables I wouldn't wait and just get something that is available as the first gen SerialATA drives won't be any faster than the identical parallel version.
 
I read somewhere that the different generations of serial-ATA will be backwards-compatible, and that the serial_ATA chipset can be flashed to support the faster transfer rates when they come out. Unless I just made that up in my head????

I've only had my Dimension 8200 for about 4 months, so it's really not time to build a new one yet. It hasn't given me any problems, and it quite fast. When I build mine I will go with a RAMBUS board, unless this supposed dual-channel DDR blows it out of the water.

I found a Koolance case with all the watercooling stuff already in it. Read a review on watercooling101 www.wc101.com and they reviewd the first Koolance case to have watercooling in it. The review gave it high marks and said it was especially good for first-time watercooler builders, like myself. Here's a link to the pictures of the Koolance case, as well as the koolance specs:

http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?style=album

http://koolance.com/products/ccs-a01/

Let me know what you think!
 
you should try innovatek
toms hardware has a review about it
they even have a video showing how to install it
 
Originally posted by: Pariah
According to the official SerialATA.org faq sometime in 2001. We probably will see some trickle in before Xmas, but I don't think we'll see large available quantities until next year. Unless you are dead-set on the smaller cables I wouldn't wait and just get something that is available as the first gen SerialATA drives won't be any faster than the identical parallel version.
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do you mean in 2003?
 
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