Serial ata sata abbreviated from serial at attachment is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives optical drives and solid state drives serial ata succeeded the earlier parallel ata pata standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices.
Serial ata sata data cable connector.
Serial ata industry compatibility specifications originate from the.
What is a serial ata sata cable.
It has been renamed pata the main difference between the two lies in the cables.
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Sata cables can be as long as 1 meter 3 3 feet which provides some freedom to choose where devices can be mounted.
The term defines the types of cables and some connections which this standard follows.
The maximum cable length of a pata cable is just 18 inches 1 5 feet.
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Designed to meet the demand for higher data transfer rates molex serial ata interconnects are available in a variety of configurations to meet various power and signal supply requirements in the data computing and telecom networking industries.
The sata18pow sata data and power cable features a combination 22 pin sata receptacle data and power connector as well as a lp4 power connector and sata receptacle data connector allowing you to create a conventional serial ata data connection to a computer while powering the drive through an lp4 connection to the computer power supply.
Sata cables have seven wires pata cables have 40 or 80.
The sata is an ide standard which was released in 2001 to connect a different kind of devices like motherboard hard drives and optical drives.
Serial ata connectors and cable assemblies.
Sata or serial ata is the abbreviation of serial advanced technology attachment.