13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
10:03 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Lance Lyon wrote:
The only thing I dislike about SATA is how hard drive manufacturers
decided that once they were making SATA drives that they no longer had any
reason to make PATA drives. There are a lot of devices (not just
computers) that use PATA hard drives and replacing those drives as they
age is becoming incredibly difficult. Those SATA to PATA "adapters" simply
do not work correctly, especially for higher speed devices that make use
of DMA. [If there is even room to fit an adapter at all anyway, which
often in embedded applications there is not.]
We certainly
don't need SATA, but we have it anyway.
Seriously, what's there to dislike about it? Faster, hot swappable,
smaller cabling - the haters will just keep on hating anything new
unfortunately.