On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:40:41AM +0200, Paulo Andre wrote: > I have to build a new firewall and the salesman is trying to sell me Serial > ATA as part of the solution. > Has anyone used this, because I have heard that Serial ATA is not up to spec? Not sure SATA has anything to do with a firewall box. Unless you are doing a lot of logging, you don't need enhanced performance on the IDE bus, do you? If you were building a file/application server, SATA on something like the 3Ware cards is nice, but still a bit overrated ATM. Cheers, Ed