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To: jw who wrote (10512)	2/16/2000 12:08:00 AM
From: Jeff Jordan	Respond to of 14778

I've got a sb Live they are problematic.....

To: jw who wrote (10512)	2/16/2000 9:20:00 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

Serial ATA: maximumpc.com Intel Dumps ATA ~Maximum PC Intel and six partners want to replace your aging ATA drive interface with a faster one . The new interface busts open the bottleneck restricting hard drives and scales to six times current ATA transfer speeds. The new interface, known as Serial ATA, pumps out 1.6Gbps contrasted to ATA/66 which is little over 0.5Gbs at maximum throughput. Serial ATA expects to scale to 6Gbps and will demo this fall. Expect to see it in desktops and entry-level RAID servers. Apart from the speed increases, the most significant improvement is cable design. Serial ATA reduces the number of pins from the required 24 to four pins. The thinner cabling is expected to lower costs slightly, also. Serial ATA disregards royalty licenses similar to IEEE 1394 which should speed adoption within the industry. The major companies allied with Intel are Dell, IBM, Maxtor, Quantum and Seagate.