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w1ntry
01-16-2006, 01:23 PM
Ok even I didn't really realise this so have a read at somethign insignificant but worth noting for political correctness:
His S-ATAnic majesty drives hard disk standards

Disk drives market, market drives disk, it's ylang-yling

By INQUIRER staff: Sunday 15 January 2006, 23:25
A READER TELLS the INQ that all is not well with the Serial ATA standard and we are not doing a great deal to help clarify things.

Said Rui to the INQ: "Sometimes I think the people writing articles for the Inq should read this page."

At this point, he commanded: "Stop writing "SATA 2" when you mean "SATA 3 GB/s". There is no standard called "SATA 2" (or even "SATA II"). There's SATA, and then there are extra features defined by a committee that was once called "SATA II" (and is now called "SATA IO"). Each of those features is independent from the others (ex., the new Raptors have NCQ, hot-plugging, etc., but still transfer at 1.5 Gb/s)."

We trust that clarifies everything.

Paradoxxx
01-16-2006, 02:04 PM
Very interesting, guess i was one of those 'sata 2' guys

opium
01-16-2006, 04:16 PM
way so everyting is different now

G_Pinkie
01-16-2006, 06:08 PM
Yea sata with 3gb/s and all the extra feautures is now sata 2.5 i believe they was calling it last time i checked it cause manufacturers was sayin it was sata2 when it only supported the higher transfer rate but not any ncq or other features.

mojo
01-16-2006, 09:41 PM
para was one of the pci-X guys when he really meant pci-e too if i'm not mistaken...

opium
01-17-2006, 11:09 AM
ent and i was the one try to correct him :P

w1ntry
01-17-2006, 03:04 PM
LMAO @ PCI-X... I had to correct men with dat too oui! shame on para LOL