With drive sizes increasing vastly to hundreds of Gigabytes, there needed to be a faster way to transfer data throughout the PC's systems. the answer was Serial ATA (SATA) This standard removed the need for large ribbon cables and instead uses thin flat cables to connect the devices to the motherboard, also SATA removes the need to adjust jumpers or bridges as were necessary with IDE ATA drives.
The first version of SATA has a maximum transfer rate of 150Mbytes/s , the last ATA had a rate of 133 Mbytes/s. As the standard is adopted fully and becomes more common place later versions Serial ATA II and III will allow for even faster transfer rates of data through out the computers systems.
Serial ATA Vs ATA
Serial ATA (also known as S-ATA or SATA) is the newer format for hard drives, read to compare the new SATA format against the older but still widely used ATA standard.
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Serial ATA
Serial ATA is an evolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physical storage interface.
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Serial ATA Working Group
Known as Serial ATA , the new serial interface is designed to overcome the limitations of...
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