On Wednesday 31 December 2003 08:28, Syd Hancock wrote:
I read something about this a few months ago - PC Plus probably, I think they had a an article about major changes in PC architecture upcoming e.g. SATA, PCI Express (?).
We have been building and selling SATA capable machines for some time now. Very nice to loose those chunky IDE cables (although I have yet to get it working with our favourite operating system)
Unfortunately we will be stuck with the legacy IDE interfaces until the price and availability of SATA removeable media drives matches that of SATA hard drives.
There are converters available to run IDE devices from a SATA interface, but these represent another expense to OEM builders who prefer the cheaper option of the IDE interface on the board until SATA CD,DVD,RW drives are readily available and inexpensive