26 Oct
2004
26 Oct
'04
09:20
Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, list gurus:
I've been hearing about SATA drives, lately. What are they, and can they plug into a regular drive controller, or do they need some special controller card, or what? They must have some advantage over whatever we should call normal drives, so what is it?
SATA is an acronym for Serial ATA, which is a new drive interface, that uses a small round cable, instead of a wide ribbon cable. Both the controller and drive have to support it, though adapters are available. In addition to the smaller cable, I believe it has speed and distance advantages over the ATA connected drives and may also be hot pluggable. However, as always, Google can often provide lots of info.