sata drives

[sgopus]

I see that high capacity SATA drives are in low supply and expensive, I
can't imagine putting in a 3G drive for data, when there
are multiple low priced high capacity ATA drives, even if the mb supports
raid 0/1 with SATA.
I think I'll stick with ATA for awhile. till the new tech catches up.

 

[R. McCarty]

Expensive (>?) - a Seagate 250 Gigabyte, Perpendicular oriented drive
with a 16-Megabyte Cache is less than ~$100. On a SATA-II controller
you can achieve a sustained throughput of 125 Megabytes/Sec with an
access time of under 10.0 mS.
Some new motherboards have only a single PATA channel for Optical
drives until SATA DVD drives become the standard.
Other new motherboard/chipsets have dropped PATA completely.

 

[sgopus]

interesting, I couldn't find anything but 3g sata drives on newegg.com,
guess I'll have to look around

 

[Frank]

I have not heard of a 3G capacity drive. I think that you should
brush up on your reading/comprehension skills. What you
are seeing is SATA 3.0Gb/s, which is a transfer speed.