An industry initiative for Serial ATA II was announced this week, so it's natural to wonder where Serial ATA 1.0 is, now that it's been some six months since the new drive specification was finalized.

IDE/ATA technology is, whether you like it or not, ultimately a second chair performer to SCSI technologies, even with ATA/66/100/133 et alia; SerialATA tries to even that score somewhat. Tom's has a ...