My dad tells me of some new hard drive that is going to become a standard, within about 6 months he said. Does anyone have any info on this?
My dad tells me of some new hard drive that is going to become a standard, within about 6 months he said. Does anyone have any info on this?
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no, I think he's probably talking about the new round cable they're starting to use instead of ribbon cables.
>>> new hard drive that is going to become a standard
A hard drive could never become a standard, the technology is running to fast, any "standard" disk drive would be obselete before the drive was in mass production. An interface, that would be different, but any new interface would take a while to trickle through the MB manufacturers, they would then, for ages, offer dual standards, and for sure some kind of adaptors would be available later.
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Well put. The round cables aren't nearly supported enough to be "standard". Very few things in the hardware line are standard, tell daddy to consult the dictionary :POriginally posted by adrianxw
>>> new hard drive that is going to become a standard
A hard drive could never become a standard, the technology is running to fast, any "standard" disk drive would be obselete before the drive was in mass production. An interface, that would be different, but any new interface would take a while to trickle through the MB manufacturers, they would then, for ages, offer dual standards, and for sure some kind of adaptors would be available later.
Round cables have big advantages such as airflow.
Don't know to much of it's capibility's.
Rounded IDE cables are far from new... they've been around for at least a couple years and that's hardly anything to make big news...Originally posted by frenchfry164
no, I think he's probably talking about the new round cable they're starting to use instead of ribbon cables.
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The interface is what I meant, like I said in the subject. Maybe they won't become a "standard", but they will be what ribbon cables are today, whatever you might say that is.
Lets just wait about 6 - 10 months and see what happens
That article's a year old, dude.
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From article:
The feature upgrade is planned to be finalized in the second half of the year, with products available in 2003. The speed increase will be defined by the end of 2003, with product availability for the year after that.
Any article that describes a technology where the speed increase in their hardware will be defined a year and a half after the article's written is vague enough to be rendered useless.
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your dad is probly talking about the new holographic hard drives fixing to come out
>>any "standard" disk drive would be obselete before the drive was in mass production
I beg to differ, floppy drives (both 5 1/2 and 3 1/2) were the standard for years. One to load the OS, on to load programs. Floppy drives still come on every computer you'd buy off the shelf, it is a standard, whether it's slower, or obsolete, or however you want to look at it, it still has very practical and necessary uses. Hard drives will always be that way (unless however something totally blows it out of the water that's cheaper). The same I believe will go for optical disks, they're so cheap to make and have such a good shelf life (no magnetic interference) that they will live as the floppy has.
I also have a question about those "round cables"....isn't it just a normal ribbon/ide cable with the wires twisted into a round sleeve?? It's still the same 168 pin (or whatever it is) isn't it? That's the case on the one's I've seen, however I could be wrong. Just wondering.
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Hehe. I just find that amusing because of the fact the previous Imacs (maybe new ones too) don't have a floppy driveOriginally posted by Waldo2k2
Floppy drives still come on every computer you'd buy off the shelf, it is a standard, whether it's slower, or obsolete, or however you want to look at it, it still has very practical and necessary uses.
Anyway, I haven't read the articles, but I'm assuming we're talking serial ATA as the new format for hard drives? It's already making it's way into laptop computers, and a few desktop motherboard manufactures are including it on their boards too.
