for those of you mental about getting serial ATA..

[Spyda]

this may interest you.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,537551,00.asp

[Spyda]

just in case you cant be bothered, read the last couple of paragraphs :rolleyes:

[Force Flow]

What's missing from the picture are S-ATA storage devices. The first Serial ATA hard drives should be shipping within the next couple of months. However, it may be up to a year before the drives become widespread. Further, S-ATA optical storage drives are unlikely to arrive until sometime in 2003. Manufacturers of optical drives are in no hurry -- they don't need the added speed, and the low margins in that business makes transitioning interfaces a slow process.
Interesting...

[mike breck]

Suits me fine. I dwell on the shirtail of innovation anyway.

[Spyda]

what i found most interesting was that for the mean time anyway, current drives will have a fatser sustained speed