SATA - what is it?
The acronym SATA stands for "Serial Advanced Technology Attachment" and is a Transmission technology for hard disk drives and removable storage drives. Parallel signal lines have been changed some time ago to serial operation, in order to increase the data transfer rate. The first Version of SATA was introduced in 2001.
- Development to P-ATA: Serial ATA is backward compatible with the parallel ATA, and thus represents a further development of the outdated transmission technology P-ATA. The new interface improved the cabling and guaranteed rate to a higher Transmission.
- SATA cable: The 40-or 80-pin ATA cable, you can replace it with a thin, 8mm wide, 7-pin cable. Some SATA cables have identical connectors. If you plug the connector on the hard disk, or the motherboard doesn't matter. Curved plug should you place on the hard disk. SATA cables can be up to a Meter long.
- SATA hard drives: IDE hard drives a thing of the past. The modern SATA hard drives are easier to install due to their thin cable, significantly more space. The data transfer from the disk to the PC is faster than the outdated IDE hard drives.
- The future: However, the SATA hard disk drives are the best you will find on the market today. Even more robust and faster, the so-called Solid State Disks are. What this everything is, and what the best are, know you are in our SSD-best list.
SATA hard drive
Read in the next practice tip the difference between SATA and eSATA.
