Serial ATA HDDs

[TeaLeaf]

I am on the lookout for some SATA HDDs in the New Year (the ASUS mobo I use in my server will only support RAID if at least one of the HDDs is SATA - and I bought the mobo before anyone made any SATA HDDs  :oops: ).

I know that Seagate make some at the moment, but if anyone spots any  other manufacturers coming to market with them could they post a url here for me to follow please?

Many thanks.

TL.  

[Anonymous]

TL,

Might be worth having a look at this review before you go throwing your money at it:

http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=477

[TeaLeaf]

Thanks BlueBall

I#m not so interested in the performance aspect of SATA at the moment, but I have a server that is dying to run RAID 1 and can't without a SATA HDD.  My real interest was to find out when the SATA HDDs hit the market in volume as competition will push prices down and increase the choice available to me.  The hot-swappable bit is also of interest as I have some swappable drive bays awaiting HDDs  

TL.  

[Anonymous]

No prob. Interesting article though, especially the second generaration stuff due in 2004 (300Mb/sec data rate with a 4Gb/sec bus speed) Whoohoo!

[TeaLeaf]

Yeah, now that bit IS interesting, but I'm not holding my breath for it.....

TL.