[ale] OT: serial ata worth it?

[Drag0n]

it would be good for setting up an ide raid if you already have the
drives and a SATA controller, have thought about it myself as i have a
SATA raid controller onboard the mainboard of my desktop and a couple of
large IDE drives that i would consider running in a mirror. but i would
have to see if the performance is there and the linux support is still
patchy even in the 2.6 kernel(but looking very promising as the specs
have been released for open source development.).


Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 20:19, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Is there any benefit with a device like this:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3451012408&category=41994
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:40, Drag0n wrote:
> > Wait for it, the SATA standard has yet to stabalize, the controller
> > chips are still considered not up to standard. And if you dont plan on
> > having a SATA drive for a while, its not worth the extra money for
> > hardware that may not be useful when you do.(next gen SATA will
> > supposedly be including scsi ?SSCSI? and will be cross compatable).
> > 
> > Drag0n
> > dragon at atlantacon.org
> >  
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:02, John Wells wrote:
> > > For you hardware gurus out there...
> > > 
> > > I'm in the market for an IDE controller card, an looking at either buying
> > > a Promise ATA 133 card for around $35, or one of these Promise SATA 150 /
> > > ATA 133 combo cards:
> > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000085BCN/qid=1073433416/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1_etk-electronics/103-7246567-3011026?v=glance&s=electronics&n=172282
> > > 
> > > I don't have any serial ata drives and don't plan on buying one anytime
> > > soon, but I wonder if it might be worth the extra $$ to have this
> > > capability down the line.  Is the world really going towards SATA and are
> > > the performance benefits really that great?  I'd bet this card in
> > > particular will be obsolete by the time I get around to buying a new drive
> > > (at least a year out), so I'm trying to justify the purchase either way.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your input!
> > > 
> > > John
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