The Man who invented SATA is comming to My house shortly

[Lazien]

My roommate told Me that Her uncle was the Man who invented SATA and now He's comming over....Yes Rob Strieby (think I spelled it right) is comming to My house.
If anyone has a question they'd like answered just post them here and I'll ask Him.

I'm perty excited Myself...I mean damn He invented something sweet atleast.

 

[keeleysam]

Why do the connectors break all the damn time?

 

[Mday]

no one invents protocols... but still he worked for the company that developed SATA.
http://www.denali.com/memcon/sanjose2004_day2trackb_panel.html

 

[EightySix Four]

What features would he have liked to seen added that didn't make it into the final specs?

 

[bobsmith1492]

It's a differential signal, right? What voltage does it run at (+/-)? Does it use an op-amp at the receiving end to compare the two lines? What kind? Just wondering....

 

[piddlefoot]

fix the sata plugs tell him .....they fall out constantly if lan gaming, ide no prob, sata mad new tech ,crap fall out corrupt windows, need better connectors !
l use silicone ffs to keep em in place , to be sure !
aaarrrggghhh.......

 

[xtknight]

That's cool. Here's my question:

Why are all the standards such a mess? SATA150,SATA1,SATA2,SATA300 god save me.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Why the hell do the connectors break all the damned time?

 

[calculusz]

Is SATA2 the same as SATA300? Is SATA1 the same as SATA150? (Actually, could someone here answer that?)

And I believe SATA1/150 speed is 150MB/S, but SATA2/300 is 3GB/sec?

 

[lowside]

I know there are other features (hot swaping, NCQ) but the key thing seems to be data speed. What is the point of 3gb/s bandwith with buffers of 8MB and sustained transfer speeds well under 100MB/s?

My question: When will we see the next revolution in hard drives that'll even use 50% of that bandwidth?

 

[OCedHrt]

I believe a lot of the questions you guys are asking has already been answered by an article on Anandtech.

SATA2 does not imply 3Gb/s, hotplug, NCQ, or any of the other SATA2 features. SATA2 is simply the branding, and a SATA2 device may or may not include these features.

 

[imported_Hamzter]

'Am I sad for getting excited about meeting the inventor of SATA?'

Maybe I'm just not geeky enough, or maybe I'm missing something?

 

[gsellis]

Ask him if he says S A T A or pronounces it. (thinks of big thread last year about pronouncing it...)

 

[MrDudeMan]

ask him if he cares if you bang his niece

 

[Elcs]

SATA who?

Id ask why the system is such a pain compared to IDE. There are some really nice benefits to SATA, added bandwidth and nicer cables, but compared to installing an IDE HDD in Windows they are a realy pain.

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
ask him if he cares if you bang his niece

ROFL!

 

[foodfightr]

Originally posted by: BadThad

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
ask him if he cares if you bang his niece

ROFL!

good call

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
ask him if he cares if you bang his niece

Good question