The SATA interface combines backward compatibility and innovative features to enable cost-efficient storage applications such as near-line, network storage and combination interface storage.

What is SATA? Why is SATA being developed? What are the end-user benefits of SATA? Hard drive data rates have not exceeded ATA100 limits yet, so why should I switch to SATA? What do I need to ...

Serial ATA (SATA), introduced in 2003, implements the ATA and ATAPI protocol over a high speed serial interface. Initially SATA 1.0 data transfer speed was 1.5 Gbit / second (150 Mbytes/sec) but the ...

Terms used to describe the obsolete Harddrive interface which preceded the SATA interface include; IDE, Parallel ATA, PATA, and P-ATA.