On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 07:20 -0400, Mark Hanchey wrote:
> Right now I can use SD cards to store data but my question was more in=20
> regards to future projects that might want to use a SATA device. I was=20
> just noticing how little focus there was on SATA projects in the hobby=20
> community and wondered if it was because a lack of interface options.

The lack of "easy" interface certainly is a factor. That said, there are
VERY few reasons for a hobby type project to need more then what SD
cards cheaply provide, and since they are so simple to interface to I'd
say most hobbyists haven't even considered SATA devices.

My first data storage hobby project started out with an IDE interface.
Reason being that flash cards were too expensive what what I wanted, and
I had lots of IDE drives lying around. It wasn't long before I switched
to CF cards (which have an IDE interface mode). Not long after that my
projects started using SD cards. To this day I haven't considered going
back to hard drives, SD cards are so cheap and plentiful.

TTYL


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