sata 2 & nforce3
 

My original plan was to match a nforce3 board to my agp x800xt in the near future, but the news that sataII is around the corner makes me hold back

http://techreport.com/etc/2005q1/ces/index.x?pg=4
(hitachi for example on the lower half of the page)

given that nforce4 supports ncq/sata2, and there is no current solution available to the agp side of the market, you can suspect that nvidia will release an updated version of the nforce3 mcp ( -> any news about that?)

since i'm just jabbering on and on, i'm just going to put down the golden question: what will sata2 bring us & is it worth to postpone an upgrade?

(dont kill me if some guru already made the above clear in a column :woot: )

if hard disk can not saturate SATA1 or ATA, how will they benefit from SATA2 ? ;)

Native Command Queuing also does not bring a large improvement for desktop users;

so in the end.. well, as long as HD don't increase their max. transfer rates, I see no point in waiting or needing a faster SATA:)

in my humble opinion that's likely the scenario that's going to happen but the SATA "2" technology has been used in business solutions for quite some time now, using advanced RAID implementation. Configurations have always proven to be too expensive for PC however that's perhaps changing in the near future?
Or perhaps it isn't. At any rate, it still shouldn't let you change or hold your purchase decision. Even if nvidia implements SATA 2 in a new chip it likely wouldn't support those RAID implementations anyway. The bottleneck will still be the disk technology used instead of the storage controller technology.

I didn't read the article provided but tell me why the disk in the picture is a PATA disk? :D