In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, greg@CopelandConsulting.Net (Greg Copeland) transmitted:
> While I have read that many expect serial ATA to seriously challenge
> SCSI I honestly have no idea where the rhetoric stops and reality
> begins. I'd hazard a guess we'll really not know the whole truth until
> samples become widely available from multiple sources including drives,
> drivers, and host interfaces.
I'd see Serial ATA being a "serious challenger" if it allowed you to
cheaply build some "embarrassingly-parallel" RAID servers where you
were able to get 16 drives hooked up, each on its own ATA 'bus' for
about the price of 4-way SCSI.
But the intended market is doubtless the super-price-conscious market,
which naturally leads to the overall quality of the results being
pretty compromised.
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