Re: Maxtor ships multimedia-friendly drive

From: Joshua Kugler <jk@as.uaf.edu>
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 11:01:48 AKDT

Man...I must be tired.

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:36 am, Joshua Kugler wrote:
> 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

*parallel*

> 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

*now* that it's serial

> can be bumped up higher. Anyone care to correct me?

-- 
Joshua Kugler
Assistant Systems Administrator
UAF Department of Mathematical Sciences
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