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Newer page: version 12 Last edited on Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:49:08 pm by LawrenceDoliveiro Revert
Older page: version 11 Last edited on Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:43:33 pm by LawrenceDoliveiro Revert
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 An [Acronym] for __S__erial [ATA]. Compare [PATA]. 
  
-A cheaper alternative to [SCSI] harddrives . The performance of [SATA]-1 compliant devices is equivalent with 10,000 [RPM] [SCSI] drives (Ultra160/Ultra320) (provided of course that the [SATA] drive is 10,000 [RPM] and has similar cache). 
+A cheaper alternative to [SCSI] for connecting [BlockDevice]s . The performance of [SATA]-1 compliant hard drives is equivalent with 10,000 [RPM] [SCSI] drives (Ultra160/Ultra320) (provided of course that the [SATA] drive is 10,000 [RPM] and has similar cache). 
  
 [SATA] drives are like [SCSI] drives in that they do not just work for boot devices if you are building your own LinuxKernel or with some [LinuxDistribution]s. 
  
 The reason for this is that they need a driver and the driver is on the disk - catch 22.