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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: LoadWB on January 25, 2010, 06:03:20 PM
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Mostly rhetorical, partially facetious, and somewhat curious. IS anyone working on a SATA interface for Amiga, or are we content with IDE-to-SATA adapters?
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I think the Amiga's own bus bottlenecks render SATA's speed benefits useless, so it's probably going to be adapters for the foreseeable future...
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AmigaOne X1000 has SATA!
..are any of the older Amigas even fast enough to benefit from the speed of SATA?
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Mostly rhetorical, partially facetious, and somewhat curious. IS anyone working on a SATA interface for Amiga, or are we content with IDE-to-SATA adapters?
Erm... what about USB?
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Nothing wrong with USB. And when speaking of bottlenecks I just think about how the fastest Amiga IDE interface I know of is PIO 4, not even DMA (16.6MB/s, I believe, still no slouch for our purposes) so it is not the speed of SATA I am thinking of exploiting, but rather the physical compatibility.
Something like a Budda with a SATA port was more my thought, just to have a full hardware-level interface without cumbersome adapters which would be necessary for IDE-to-SATA and USB-to-SATA.
As I implied in my OP, I'm certainly not pushing this as a "we should do this" or anything of that ilk, just curiosity. You know, kinda like trying to get your girlfriend into an awkward position by joking about it first and gauging her response ;)
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nice analogy :D