Okay, this is driving me nuts.
Boards supporting Serial ATA have been out for 3 to 4 months. Adapters for IDE to SATA have been around just as long. And there's a few SATA drives on the market already, with a bunch on the way.
And no matter how hard I look, the only goddamned place that carries 1 meter SATA cables is Mwave? And they're $9 a pop? What the hell?
Did I step into some sort of reality distortion ray? SATA cables use less wires than IDE cables, require less raw materials, and they're 3 times the price? Christ, when ATA-66 came out 3 years ago, I could pick up a cable for $6, and that was when manufacturing yields were low, like they probably are for SATA cables now.
The hell?
Boards supporting Serial ATA have been out for 3 to 4 months. Adapters for IDE to SATA have been around just as long. And there's a few SATA drives on the market already, with a bunch on the way.
And no matter how hard I look, the only goddamned place that carries 1 meter SATA cables is Mwave? And they're $9 a pop? What the hell?
Did I step into some sort of reality distortion ray? SATA cables use less wires than IDE cables, require less raw materials, and they're 3 times the price? Christ, when ATA-66 came out 3 years ago, I could pick up a cable for $6, and that was when manufacturing yields were low, like they probably are for SATA cables now.
The hell?