18 Aug
2012
18 Aug
'12
2:11 p.m.
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:56:04PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
If there were no installed base, very little (possibly nothing - I
don't know either interface well enough to be sure). But anything that
means trying to buy new parts is met with "that's been discontinued,
you'll have to buy new everything else too" is something to dislike.
There are interface adapters. The Sun V100 right next to me is currently
running 2x 1 TB SATA disks attached to its internal PATA ports by way
of SATA-PATA adapters. Works pretty well. Not fast, mind you, but that
I blame mostly on the crappy AcerLabs PATA chip on the mainboard. It
wasn't fast with PATA disk either.
We certainly don't need SATA, but we have it
anyway.
Seriously, what's there to dislike about it? If disks were just as available in IDE as SATA (just
try to buy a >1T
IDE drive)
Interface adapters and buy SATA disks. Not fast, but at least it should
work and a PATA interface is slower than SATA anyway.
and if host support for SATA were coeval with, instead
of
replacing, IDE? Then you might have a point. That's not what I'm
seeing, though.
That's why I wrote of SATA being imposed on buyers, rather than being
offered to buyers.
Honestly, I'm happy for the death of PATA. There is a reason I ran all my
systems with SCSI and used PATA only for non-critical stuff. These days,
$HOME is on SCSI and bulk storage on SATA (RAID1/RAID5).
Kind regards,
Alex.
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