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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:
> <a rel="nofollow" href="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";>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</a>
>
> 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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