His S-ATAnic majesty drives hard disk standards

A READER TELLS the INQ that all is not well with the Serial ATA standard and we are not doing a great deal to help clarify things.

Said Rui to the INQ: "Sometimes I think the people writing articles for the Inq should read this page."

At this point, he commanded: "Stop writing "SATA 2" when you mean "SATA 3 GB/s". There is no standard called "SATA 2" (or even "SATA II"). There's SATA, and then there are extra features defined by a committee that was once called "SATA II" (and is now called "SATA IO"). Each of those features is independent from the others (ex., the new Raptors have NCQ, hot-plugging, etc., but still transfer at 1.5 Gb/s)."

We trust that clarifies everything. µ