On 10/23/05, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So any new device will have to be SATA. Since I plan on upgrading, > might as well get the most out of it! SATA I without NCQ doesn't seem > any better than PATA. > > As for Paolo's comment on the premium pricing, these drives don't look > premium at all: > My PATA current drive, 120 GB/7200 RPM/2 MB cache ST3120022A - 4,200 > The SATA I/NCQ 120 GB/7200 RPM/8 MB cache ST3120827AS - 4,800! > > Source: > http://www.rsuncomputers.com/products.asp?id=HDS&cat=HDS > http://www.rsuncomputers.com/products.asp?id=HDD&cat=HDD
I think I was referring to the next generation SATA (as authored by the SATA II organization) + NCQ. Some vendors are eyeing to implement the 3Gb/s (which isn't really necessary for , neither would be NCQ) which can jack up the price a bit from current SATA implementations. Other proposed enhancements include asynchronous notification, true hotplug support (supposedly all SATA should support this... then again this depends on your SATA controller chipset), staggered spin-up, et.al. > By the time this is out, the Opteron should be down to its normal > price of <$200. Sweet. I really long for this day... but it isn't going to be happening soon, especially when Intel's dual core Xeon won't be around for quite some time. By the time this happens, socket 940 would've been near obsoletion as AMD's transitioning to another socket type by next year. I still couldn't buy anything more than the Opteron 246, as anything beyond that is freaking expensive already even with the existence of dual core processors, as AMD these days virtually has no competition in the enterprise x86-64 market. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
