Originally posted by qtiger
Well, that new Serial ATA is supposed to be pretty good, but I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet. Theoretically 200 mbps throughput without the problems of normal IDE. BUT I can't find any info on whether it's still CPU controlled.
not right now.
it's 150mb/s. from what I've seen it's pretty efficient as far as CPU utilization goes.
but they will be scaled to 300mb/s and possibly a bit higher. all of which makes little difference until there are 4 port and 6 or 8 port SATA controllers available.
I know there will be a 4 port SATA raid controller available soon that will support all major OSes, Linux, Unixware, SCO, etc
the main problems SATA solves is the cable length issue and the IDE bus sharing issues. since you can only attach one drive per port there is no sharing of available bandwidth on that port.