[ale] OT: serial ata worth it?

[Chris Fowler]

Is there any benefit with a device like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3451012408&category=41994


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:
> > 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
> > 
> > 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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