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When are you going to have Serial ATA in your PC?

By the end of this year
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17%
Q1 2003
2
17%
Q2 2003
2
17%
Q3 2003
0
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Q4 2003
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2004 or after
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Maxtor Serial ATA HDD in Tokyo

Postby Kennyshin on Sat Dec 14, 2002 3:47 pm

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20021214/serialatahdd.html

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It seems that User's Side is selling one or two units of 120GB Maxtor Serial ATA HDD bundled with PCI Serial ATA card.

120GB SATA HDD + 120GB SATA HDD + Promise SATA 2-channel = 58,580 Yen (about 500 US.)

http://www.users-side.co.jp/shopping/list_nfrm_sale_sata150.php
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Postby Ian on Sat Dec 14, 2002 4:54 pm

I need some new hard drives but I've been holding off for SATA ones. I'd almost pay $500 for two 120GB drives and a SATA card. Still a little too expensive though.
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Postby glock20rocks on Sat Dec 14, 2002 5:36 pm

Waiting for the Serial ATA Western Digital 200GB/8MG cache drives...
I like fast :)
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Postby Han on Sat Dec 14, 2002 6:21 pm

I think I'll wait for SATA-300 (v2.0). :wink:
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Postby Derek on Sat Dec 14, 2002 8:28 pm

My next PC purchase is going to be next summer, probably Julyish. I will plan on putting dual 120-160 GB SATA drives in a RAID. If not to free up my IDE channels, then just to have thoes neat new cables! I just hope the drive makers don't take us up the butt on prices. Just because it's new doesn't mean it has to cost $150 more than its PATA cousin.

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Postby Alexandrus on Sat Dec 14, 2002 10:35 pm

I think I'll wait untill SATA-300 comes out or until chipsets come with native SATA support and HDD drvies are wide spread. That would be around Q2 2003 for the chipsets and 2004 for the SATA-300.
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Postby Kennyshin on Wed Dec 18, 2002 2:24 pm

The major review sites have Seagate Serial ATA HDDs waiting to be reviewed now.
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Postby Kennyshin on Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:29 pm

http://watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20030111/newitem.html

Asus Serial ATA Converter for US$20

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Postby Derek on Thu Jan 09, 2003 8:57 am

Don't use one of those converters. You will get less performance than ATA100, as it converts the signal twice...

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