Re: Dumb question for off-list discussion -- WAS: ULTRA ATA/100

Marc Mutz (Marc@Mutz.com)
Tue, 06 Jun 2000 19:12:20 +0200

Bryan -TheBS- Smith wrote:
>
<snip>
> Maybe they are saving this for Ultra/266 or something?!?!?!
> ;->>> 2005 seems a long way off, probably too long to wait for
> Serial ATA when drives start bumping up against the 100MBps limit.
<snip>

German c't magazine writes in their news article covering ATA/100 that
this will probably be the last incarnation of Ultra-ATA. So this is a
dead end when it comes to "upgradeabilty". SCSI, however, can easily
migrate to even higher speed, because it essentially is only a command
set (and one that is used for usb storage and ATAPI devices, too, IIRC).

Marc

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