HopperJF wrote:
SCSI and IDE are dead.
SATA is the new standard.
Don't forget
SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI). I gather the enterprisey thing to do is to use SAS controllers (as preinstalled on modern server boards) with mostly SATA disks. (Of course, this is a big difference between SAS and prior SCSI flavors... these days the entire industry is aligned around making SATA and SAS play nice together and complement each other, hence the SATA-in-SAS and SATA-right-into-a-SAS-controller support.)
SATA is plenty "good enough" that there's basically no reason for a home user to go SAS (the benefits probably don't show until you have 128+ disks to juggle), though I still expect full SAS controllers to start trickling down once southbridges go through another couple die shrinks and someone convinces the overclocker/gamer crowd that SAS will somehow improve their framerates or level load times.
