A rewrite of a combo of SSA timing and Dual Ringing, with (U320-style) SCSI Byte-endcoding.

If anyone has really used SSA here, then they know exactly why this is significant. Redundant paths to the device, with async and sync access to any SSA device, at the same time.

That said, real SATA-II devices (not SATA devices with SATA-II enhancement in front of the real chipset on the drive) will really show what SATA can really bring to the table.

Another point is, since the encodings are amazingly similar, in ideas and execution, I wonder if there will be a point, when to get either, depends on the controller you buy, making only one "style of drive" with 2 ports for access on it.

• Single ended controller for consumer machines, giving the transfer speed, but reduced performance because of no second channel
• Single ended dual channel controller for entry-level servers and High-End consumer machines, giving enhanced multi channel performance and redundancy in access, but no failover ability
• Ring based controller with a single ring, for Entry-Midsized servers, giving very good speed and possibility of benefit of a ring config and the benefits of multiple paths of access
• Ring based controller with Dual rings, benefits from redundancy of access through 2 rings, and the performance that then garners.
• Ring based mirroring controllers, any design... and it just continues.