[mythtv-users] S-ATA versus plain old parallel

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Tue Feb 3 07:28:50 EST 2004


On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:22:23AM -0500, DBakker at arrayasolutions.com wrote:
> Dont fall for the hype. The thing that makes SATA any faster isnt the 
> drive itself but the bus technology (SATA). SATA can do syncrhonouse 
> transfers on the same bus from multiple drives. ATA IDE only does one at a 
> time. 

Given that SATA only does one disk per cable, what does that actually
mean?


Hamish
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