Seagate serial ATA drives late October

[SavagePaladin]

...according to Pricewatch.

Cool, cool.

[Smokey]

Are serial ATA drivers going to make a big difference over ATA100/133? The reason I ask is that im hoping to get a new HDD in the next 6months. To use serial ATA I would have to buy an add-in controler card, plus I would gues the higher price of a serial ATA drive, will the extra costs be woth it. My pc use is mostly games, games, some internet, more games and movies.

[thcdru2k]

not a major difference, but its just speed improvement, like going from ata66 to ata100. if you just play games its not really that important.

[Smokey]

K thanks, im still on ATA66 :D my 27.5GB Maxtor must be going on three years now and I need a liitle more storage.

[SavagePaladin]

I don't know on speed...short answer...
I'm told latency and reliability are much improved
and usability definately is....no more crappy IDE cables or worrying about master/slave crap

[SavagePaladin]

By the way, the latency thing should help with CPU/pagefile usage and especially in stuff like Dungeon Siege...

thats what I'm thinkin anyway