Ultra 160/m Not needed for anything (someday)? (Score 2)

Another good question: How many months until ATA 200? The IBM 75G Deskstar article talks about ATA 100 support. Yeah, SCSI has it's place, yeah it has low CPU over head, etc, but is adaptec not getting a little worried? Can you imagine the situation if ATA transfer rates exceed SCSI? SCSI drives are targeted for server market, which makes their prices "unnaturally" high (inelastic demand) but at some point might not it become cheaper to build, say, a HD subsystem blackbox of ATA drives with it's own CPU, microkernel feeding a host through gigabit ethernet or something? If the software tools were in place, you might get a full ATA host with the disk subsystems priced at half the cost of SCSI flavor.

Take home prophecy: Linux (i.e. geeks) kill the SCSI oligarchy.

Go Geeks Go