More stuff about Serial ATA :)

Its backwards compatible by way of a serial ATA to IDE convertor, so you can run it with an old HDD(new mobo) if you wish or a new serial HDD and a serial ATA controller card instead of getting a new mobo
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/02q3/020812/index.html

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A prototype from Western Digital with Serial ATA is expected to reach the market some time in 2002, but not before the introduction of the next generation of hard drives.
Yay, i just bought a Harddrive :cry:

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The number of contacts on the power connector seems remarkably high at first glance. One of the reasons for this is that there is now the option of a third voltage as well as 5 V and 12 V; Serial ATA drives will now accept 3.3 V. 3.3 V is not normally available directly from the power supply. It will normally be supplied by the motherboard, which has to provide 3.3 V to a range of other components anyway.

Although based on the tests, it looks like my WD HDD with the 8MB buffer would be better in most aspects when compared to the serial adapted version of my HDD :) SCORE :D

Oooooow hot-pluggable, the PC becomes more Mac like. No more copying over the network or shutting down and plugging your hdd into another comp, all you do now is stretch out the SATA cable (up to 1M 8) ) to the other comp and away you go.
Trust HighPoint with their controller cards, on-board chips and adapters for SATA, those slurries :D . No evil Promise for me :x .