I believe the reason they went with serial is that when you pump up the speeds
that high, paralle gets a lot of crosstalk. That's the reason ATA133 drives
needed 80 conductor cables, even though they only used 40: it provided a
layer of shielding. So, not that's it's serial, the frequencies can be
bumped up higher. Anyone care to correct me?
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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:24 am, Thomison, Lee wrote:
> So does this SATA thing finally give IDE multi-tasking like SCSI has?
>
> My other stupid question: if it can 400MB/s (or whatever it is) over a
> serial line, wouldn't they get even faster speeds if they did it in
> parallel?
>
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