Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yup. You can expect the number of parallel ATA connectors on mother boards to decrease. Intel already has dropped to one parallel ATA connector on its newer mother boards. I expect the only reason it still exists is to support the optical drives. So if you are buying HD drives now I recommend you get SATA drives unless they just won't work in your system. Brian Reid wrote: > > The ULTRA ATA (133) is your best bet as SATA drives are technically not > > as reliable when used EXTERNALLY. SATA cuts down on signal corruption > > from adjacent wires and does not significantly increase bandwidth (ie > > speed). Second gen SATA will increase bandwidth when it arrives. > > Every sentence in that paragraph is false. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information