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Intel Ignites Serial ATA-300

Spinner April 21, 2004 11:41 AM ET in Tech

The Serial ATA Working Group announced Wednesday two specification development milestones at the Intel Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain. One centers on doubling the signalling speed for Serial ATA, the other on new cable and connector solutions to support additional applications and usage models.

Volume 2 of the SATA cables and connectors specification adds several new cabling options:

-An internal multi-lane cable and connector assembly for streamlining connections between multiple internal host ports and internal devices or short backplane.
-An external consumer cable and connector solution that accommodates use of Serial ATA with external storage devices.
-External multi-lane data-center cable and connector solution for connecting multiple Serial ATA channels between chassis in a data-center.

Source: Xbitlabs

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9 Comments:

  1. drasnor
    124 Golden Eye Drive
    21 Apr '04, 11:44 am

    While we're messing with the internal cable, make it so it doesn't break off the headers on my motherboard and hard drives if I'm less than gentle moving drives around while connected or removing/attaching the cable.

    -drasnor

  2. Geeky1
    No comment.
    21 Apr '04, 11:44 am

    NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

    I just converted to SATA like 8 months ago. aaaaaaaaaargh!!

  3. Enverex
    ~-+-~
    21 Apr '04, 11:57 am

    Great, so I assume this update will be a useless as ATA-100 to ATA-133 considering the drives are still not fast enough to actually make use of the interface...

  4. Geeky1
    No comment.
    21 Apr '04, 11:59 am

    Yup

  5. EyesOnly
    S_M convict...err convert
    21 Apr '04, 3:08 pm

    But the cables and connectors sounds promesing. I'm slightly worried about the current ones.

  6. Thrax
    Cad
    21 Apr '04, 4:44 pm

    I hope they make Serillel to SATA-300 adapters. Heh.

  7. Geeky1
    No comment.
    21 Apr '04, 9:17 pm

    I'd pay $40 per adapter for a DECENT PATA to SATA-150 adapter. NONE of the ones I've used so far are worth as much as the packaging they came in.

  8. Leonardo
    F@H Reign of Terror is back!
    21 Apr '04, 9:39 pm
    DECENT PATA to SATA-150 adapter. NONE of the ones I've used so far are worth as much as the packaging they came in.

    You've got that right! When I built my IC7/P4C rig last July tried several motherboard settings, HDD jumper settings, and swapped out three or four converters. Finally gave up on IDE to SATA and set up the machine in IDE mode.

  9. Thrax
    Cad
    21 Apr '04, 10:13 pm

    And so the woosh noise glides ever yonder over Geeky's head.

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