We certainly
don't need SATA, but we have it anyway.
Seriously, what's there to dislike
about it?
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.
If disks were just as available in IDE as SATA (just try to buy a >1T
IDE drive) 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.
[...] the haters will just keep on hating anything new
unfortunately.
"Haters"? Meaning, people who care about continuing to use existing
hardware? That's a peculiar definition for the word, especially here.
I don't hate the appearance of SATA, not per se. I hate the
disappearance of IDE. Not because I think it's a great interface, but
because it's an existing interface with a huge installed base, and
desupporting it this fast I have trouble seeing as anything less than a
deliberate attempt to obsolesce existing hardware. *That*, I hate.
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