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JoshT
Aug 27th, 2002, 10:50 AM
I believe it is out and Promise and Asus are shipping products with it. Anyone using it yet?
JungleMan
Aug 27th, 2002, 03:26 PM
It's a little hard to use Serial ATA without a compatible HDD ;)
JoshT
Aug 28th, 2002, 04:00 PM
What, you don't have an insider supplier? ;)
Edneeis
Aug 28th, 2002, 04:09 PM
As excited as I am about Serial ATA I think the first batch is going to be too concerned about backward compatibility to be much better. If you have to use those Old ATA to Serial ATA adapter things then it pretty much ruins the advantage of changing to the new standard. Of course it does still save space and you'd save money by not getting a new drive. But who really knows how good the serial ATA support is in these first few mobos since testing is a bit limited.
JungleMan
Aug 28th, 2002, 05:26 PM
Originally posted by JoshT
What, you don't have an insider supplier? ;)

Find me a high school student that does :p

Seriously, you can get Serial ATA drives now? What do they have available?
JoshT
Aug 29th, 2002, 11:07 AM
By no means an insider, but:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=418354

Says 4-6 days at $198.
JungleMan
Aug 29th, 2002, 06:12 PM
Cool, how did I not see that one? :eek:

Thing is, it'd just pay to get an IDE with 8MB cache instead for less money.
JoshT
Aug 30th, 2002, 11:14 AM
Originally posted by Jungle-Man
Cool, how did I not see that one? :eek:

Thing is, it'd just pay to get an IDE with 8MB cache instead for less money.

Right, because you'd have to buy an add-on card that's still limited by the speed of the PCI bus.