[geeks] Serial ATA

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Aug 16 08:33:38 CDT 2002


On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:31:51AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >What do people think?  It appears to be a pretty significant change.
> >For one thing, it appears that is now supports command queing, like SCSI
> 
> I'm reserving judgement until I see tangible test results, and get to 
> play with them myself.  However, it does seem like a significant step 
> forward for ATA drives.

The 3ware escalade 8500 is out.  Don't see any drives available yet, but
adapters for existing drives is also an option, and the adapters are out
as well I believe.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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