[Cialug] SATA the norm these days?

[Paul Gray]

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Todd Walton wrote:
> I just read the statement:
> 
> "Most modern desktop systems ship with storage devices (hard disk and
> CD/DVD drives) on a Serial ATA bus, rather than the older IDE (ribbon
> cable) bus type."
> 
> in a kernel config document on gentoo.org.  Is this true?  I know I
> just bought a motherboard and it had SATA on it, but I thought it was
> being all edgy and stuff.  Is SATA really the norm these days?

Yup -- IDE is viewed as second-tier technology these days.  As an
illustration of this, most Dell systems for the home user have
motherboards without floppy nor IDE connectors (nor parallel ports nor
serial ports) already.

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