Sometime near the end of 2001 and early 2002 computer users can expect to purchase end products with a new drive specification unveiled this week. Dubbed Serial ATA 1.0, the group currently developing it says the new specs will allow disk drives to keep up with faster processors and hard drives. Keep checking back as the story develops.
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|Serial ATA, nice... any online specs for download or view?
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|I've been waiting for this ever since I first heard about it. I hate ribbon cables; my case is packed with them and cooling it is a major task, not to mention what a mess it is. I guess this won't help with floppy and SCSI cables though.
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|Plus given the fact that it is a serial connection, we might finally be able to get rid of those stupid ribbon cables that block airflow in cases.
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|Plus given the fact that it is a serial connection, we might finally be able to get rid of those stupid ribbon cables that block airflow in cases.
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|While this sounds like a much needed improvement in the standard, It wouldn't be much of a stretch for manufacturers to produce more compact IDE cables right now. There are guides on the net showing you how to separate the individual strands in the ribbon, and then cable-tie them together, making them alot thinner and MUCH easier to stuff out of the way. Come on hardware manufacturers, here's a product differentiator that is pretty simple to make and will earn you lots of cred from system builders and hardware enthusiasts.
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|my only question is this: why 2002?
why not 2000? or even late 1999?!
it's high time hard disks got around their largest and most obvious of its bottlenecks.
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|Well... for one, it's still under development.... and it couldn't be in 1999, it's almost 2001 now!
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|You shouldn't have to "round" the cables though. Flat ribbons have got to be some of the oldest tech still lingering in a PC. And for what? Backwards compatibility? It's gotta be changed sometime.
Two years ago...air flow wasn't that much of a concern. Now with today's faster processors, vid cards, and even RAM, air flow is a major concern for some. Even some hard drives run a little on the warm side.
Hopefully they won't screw this change up with a flat ribbon again for backwards compatibility. What would we get? 160-wire, 40-pin cables? No thanks.
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