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The 2.6.21 kernel is outThe 2.6.21 kernel is outPosted Apr 27, 2007 19:46 UTC (Fri) by h2 (guest, #27965)In reply to: The 2.6.21 kernel is out by niner Parent article: The 2.6.21 kernel is out
Niner, yes, that's what I realized too.
Re esata not being obvious, I don't know about that, but I guess that kernel devs and testers aren't using it yet. I definitely wish I'd filed a bug report 3 weeks ago, since this was there then too, the actual reason I didn't was that the kernel freeze was so instant that I couldn't get any meaningful logs at all post freeze, which I assumed the kernel guys would need to see.
Esata + usb drives will replace usb standard once people start to realize how absurdly fast they are, once you run this stuff you'll never use usb again if you can help it. It's amazing to see what market inertia looks like though.
And esata is getting more and more commong to run external commercial level drive enclosures too, think for example 3ware.
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The 2.6.21 kernel is out Posted Apr 27, 2007 22:30 UTC (Fri) by hawk (subscriber, #3195) [Link] Yes, combined eSATA + USB2.0 external drives are becoming somewhat common and the eSATA interface is, as you said, just so much faster than USB2.0 that once it really catches on, USB2.0 will probably be more or less obliterated when it comes to external storage.
About 25 MB/s for sequential reads vs the full speed of the actual drive (something like a 60 MB/s avg. for sequential reads on a typical disk), the choice should be pretty simple.
That combined with eSATA equipped motherboards being rather common now and one would think that things should start to happen pretty soon.
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