Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

In one of the bigger advances to hit disk drives in years, the Serial ATA Working group has published a draft of the 1.0 Serial ATA specifications. Here are some of the cool things about Serial ATA drives...

• up to 150MBs transfer speed (yikes!!) that can finally keep up with the faster processors
• NO MORE RIBBON CABLE!!!! (make sure to look at the comparison view by clicking the link at the top of the story)
• Faster time to market because of the ability to use an external controller card rather than depending on changes to mother boards, processors, etc.
• Not just for hard drives... think DVD, CD-RW's, etc.

This is really cool. Not only will it help PC's stay cooler (ribbons restrict air flow), but disk drives will finally be able to keep up.

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