WTF is that crap, it says max 2 channel 2 drives, i thought you can have like 4-6 per channel or higher..
wasn't that the driving force for serial ata ?
SerialATA is point-to-point, therefore each device gets it's own channel (thus all drives are treated as masters and no jumpers are needed). It's up to manufacturers to decide which specific controller (chip) to implement and how many channels that controller can handle.
I don't understand why people are so surprised and complain about this. It's like saying "OMG my router only supports one connection per port" whaaa wahaaa whaaa......hmmmmm DUH
On the topic of the RocketRaid 1520 as you can see in
this picture it has HighPoint's usual ATA133 RAID controller (HPT372A) and two little Marvell chips however these aren't SerialATA controllers they're SerialATA to Parallel converter chips. So the Highpoint 1520 isn't actually a SerialATA solution it is
currently a ParallelATA solution with SerialATA support***. (This would also apply to the motherboards you're talking about). This also explains why those adapters from HighPoint are so large ... when someone releases a real SATA product the adapters will be small dongles or gender-bender type devices.
? Check here for more info:
RocketRaid 1520 Review
(***See page 5 of the review for information on the PATA-SATA-PATA conversion latency etc...)
? And check this thread for info from last week:
SerialATA Info
anyway, know what would be good for serial ata, 36" + cables !!!
SerialATA supports 1 meter cables (perhaps you should go do some
reading Or maybe you meant "...is good for..." not "...would be good for...")
Thorin