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- <li><em>date</em>: Tue Jan 6 20:43:40 2004</li>
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Drag0n
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On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 20:19, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Is there any benefit with a device like this:
>
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>
> 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:
> > > <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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