Thomas Backlund wrote:
Viestissä Sunnuntai 26. Tammikuuta 2003 00:21, John Danielson, II kirjoitti:That is interesting, and for those with the need for extreme speed, yes. For me, I will spend about $100.00 US for 100GB Western Digital JB series( 8MB buffer, 7200 RPM, ATA/100) and say that is all I need and then some for my P4\1.8GHz box(which says it runs at about 3600 Bogomips, but will also be a 2.53 GHz by then) for the next year or so. As it has a 40 GB in a swap tray, a 60 that will be joining it in a companion swap tray, and an 80 GB JB series that ran me all of $85.00 US three months ago, I think a price increase of 2.5X is not in the cards for the common man yet. Yes, first models are available from Manufacturers, like fiber channels were available 2 plus years ago.
Some of the new VIA and Intel mainboards that support 3+ GIG CPUs allowWell actually the SATA disks are not so far away...
for these drives, but they right now are future tech given the mech.
prices for about 90% of the public. We do not need to heavily worry
about these particular busses right now, IMHO, but in 2 years when R&D
costs of mfrs. are somewhat paid for, they may start to become very
popular in things like backup appliances and high-end cluster storage
units, especially for those heavily into animated high quality graphics.
John.
Here in Finland they are taking pre-orders for Seagate SATA disks now...
and Maxtor Maxline disks should show up next month (don't know their price...)
as for the Seagate Barracuda V 120GB, the price is:
IDE: 178,- Euro
SATA: 276,- Euro
but you can also buy an SATA to UATA adapter for 58,- Euro,
and hook up any IDE disk you want...
It may be aiming too high to aim for a full support in 9.1 since they
have to be tested... but after that Release the SATA disks should
have found their way to the stores...
Well, that's just my opinion...
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Thomas
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Those who work for Digital Domain or Image&Light Magic or work heavily with Crystal Space 3D need those kinds of HDs, yes. And when they drop to about 3\4 of current price I will want one of teh S\ATAs to go on the Intel PEBT2 motherboard I am hankering for(wanting badly)-- 8 months to a year for that, would be my guess. ATA's have halved in price per Gig, almost, in the last year. 120 GB JB series WD HDs are commonly available for about $130.00 USD over here, and can be had as low as $110.00 USD at qty 10-pack or more. For 9.2, this is something to look at seriously, but would shelve until then in a wishlist folder or email archive for wishlist work.
Idea valid, yes(very much so), but would have to say urgency is kinda low.
John.
