Yo, >>lower power consumption so you can safely have higher density, better hotswap capabilities Pls explain more on this. what does lower power consumption have got to do with higher density & safely? Cabling system I understand. Better airflow too!! BTW what's PATA? ATA150, yeah.. I know of that... but right now, Hard Drives in manufacture are all ATA100, I've not seen a lot of ATA133, not to say ATA150!!?? Maybe not now... I'm going to hang on to my home-brew linux RH8 departmental server with 3x 200GB IDE Drives on PII 300. my 2 cents Cheers, Mun Heng, Ow H/M Engineering Western Digital M'sia DID : 03-7870 5168 -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Keating [mailto:hosting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:07 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: SATA problems On Tuesday 23 September 2003 00:33, Ow Mun Heng uttered: > I know I work for WD, but I just can't figure out the benefits. (& I don't > see my IT dept running to change it all to SATA) :) _slightly_ higher speed (equal to ATA150, rather than 100/133), lower power consumption so you can safely have higher density, better hotswap capabilities, and a slightly better (in theory) cabling system. We (Pogo Linux) sell SATA servers and they're going like hotcakes. Seems IT is really interested in a IDE technology that truefully supports hotswapping. Sure, some people say PATA is hotswappable, with the right card/backplane/drives, and we've had good results with the 3ware cards, but it's still bending a technology to your will, that was never meant to handle it in the first place. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
