[Cialug] SATA the norm these days?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I built my current home machine a bit less than a year ago. At the time, 
SATA hard drives compared to IDE were slightly cheaper and more models 
were available. Optical drives were a different story. I did *not* want 
any IDE cables inside my machine. There were very few models of SATA 
DVD-everything drives, but i did manage to find one. I haven't looked 
this year, but i'd expect SATA optical drives are easier to find now. 
It doesn't make sense to waste space on a motherboard for IDE just to 
run an optical drive.

On Saturday June 21 2008 12:31, Todd Walton wrote:
>I just read the statement:
>
>"Most modern desktop systems ship with storage devices (hard disk and
>CD/DVD drives) on a Serial ATA bus, rather than the older IDE (ribbon
>cable) bus type."
>
>in a kernel config document on gentoo.org.  Is this true?  I know I
>just bought a motherboard and it had SATA on it, but I thought it was
>being all edgy and stuff.  Is SATA really the norm these days?
>
>-todd
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