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Re: [Sheflug] RAID Cards



On Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:16, Darrell Blake wrote:
>  >As you said, the drives are identical. The only way that moving to
>
> SATAwould get you any kind of speed increase would be if the interface
> waslimiting the drive. That's just not the case.
>
> So what is the point of SATA then? Is it just that it can run at
> 10000rpm? Can't PATA do this?

To try and compete with Firewire for a small, easily hidden connector 
format? To sell more drives by adding "features"?

alex/melt

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