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Subject: Re: OT: Serial ATA
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:34:33 -0800
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To: Paulo Andre <pandre@darkstar.nom.za>
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On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:40:41AM +0200, Paulo Andre wrote:
> I have to build a new firewall and the salesman is trying to sell me Serial 
> ATA as part of the solution.
> Has anyone used this, because I have heard that Serial ATA is not up to spec?

Not sure SATA has anything to do with a firewall box.  Unless you are
doing a lot of logging, you don't need enhanced performance on the IDE
bus, do you?

If you were building a file/application server, SATA on something like
the 3Ware cards is nice, but still a bit overrated ATM.

Cheers,
Ed