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Originally Posted by keisur
Forgive me if this has been touched on before in this forum.
Why does AW show ATA100 as the RAID drives in the Configuration and then when we get the laptops they are actually SCSI? I got the "Extreme Performance" option with 2-60GB Hitachi's in a RAID 0 config and they are SCSI. But the AW Configurator says "120GB (60GB x 2) 7200 RPM ATA100 - Hitachi."
Also, THIS article says they are SATA. |
The reason your seeing SCSI is because you have a SERIAL ATA HDD, this is the fastest comsumer HDD money can by right now. When MS made WIN2K and WINXP, these technologies (Serial ATA) were not available yet. As a result, the OS see's them as the fastest HDD you can get which is SCSI. The reason being is that your not using the IDE channels anymore, rather your using a serial interface and the OS has no other definition for it other then SCSI. SCSI or Small Computer Systems Interface was developed by Apple in the mid 80's and has been adopted ever since do to the technologies amazing data throughput capablity. Server hardware is where you see actual SCSI equipment the most. However, there are various other SCSI components for various alternative usages. I REPEAT, YOU DO NOT HAVE A SCSI DRIVE IN YOUR COMPUTER. The OS simply doesn't have the information necessary to call it anything else. All future versions of MS operating systems will have the correct HDD designation for proper identification of the respective interface... Hope that helped clear that up for you...
