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Serial ATA
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SATA (Serial AT Attachment)<!--
Key facts
- Computer hardware bus.name
- SATA
- Computer hardware bus.fullname
- 120px
- Computer hardware bus.caption
- From top to bottom, SATA Certification Logo, SATA cable, and two first-generation (1.5 Gbit/s) SATA data connectors on a motherboard.
- Computer hardware bus.invent date
- 2000
- Computer hardware bus.invent name
- Serial ATA Working Group
- Computer hardware bus.replaces
- Parallel ATA (PATA)
- Computer hardware bus.speed
- Half-duplex 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 Gbit/s
- Computer hardware bus.style
- s
- Computer hardware bus.hotplug
- Optional
- Computer hardware bus.external
- Optional (eSATA)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
43 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- Hot plug
- Advanced Host Controller Interface
- Revisions
- SATA revision 1.0 (1.5 Gbit/s, 150 MB/s, Serial ATA-150) <span class="anchor" id="1.0"></span>
- SATA revision 2.0 (3 Gbit/s, 300 MB/s, Serial ATA-300) <span class="anchor" id="2.0"></span>
- SATA revision 2.5 <span class="anchor" id="2.5"></span>
- SATA revision 2.6 <span class="anchor" id="2.6"></span>
- SATA revision 3.0 (6 Gbit/s, 600 MB/s, Serial ATA-600) <span class="anchor" id="3.0"></span>
- SATA revision 3.1 <span class="anchor" id="3.1"></span><span class="anchor" id="USM"></span>
- SATA revision 3.2 <span class="anchor" id="3.2"></span><span class="anchor" id="USM-SLIM"></span><span class="anchor" id="MICRO-SSD"></span><span class="anchor" id="HYB-INFO"></span>
- SATA revision 3.3 <span class="anchor" id="3.3"></span>
- SATA revision 3.4 <span class="anchor" id="3.4"></span>
- SATA revision 3.5 <span class="anchor" id="3.5"></span>
- Cables, connectors, and ports <span class="anchor" id="CONNECTORS"></span>
- Data connector <span class="anchor" id="DATACONN"></span>
- SATA power connectors
- Standard power connector (15 pins)
- Slimline power connector (6 pins)
- Micro connector
- Additional pins <span class="anchor" id="EXTRAPINS"></span>
- eSATA
- eSATAp <span class="anchor" id="eSATAp"></span>
- Pre-standard implementations
- Mini-SATA (mSATA) <span class="anchor" id="mSATA"></span>
- SFF-8784 connector <span class="anchor" id="SFF-8784"></span>
- SATA Express <span class="anchor" id="SATA-EXPRESS"></span>
- M.2 (NGFF) <span class="anchor" id="M.2"></span>
- U.2 (SFF-8639) <span class="anchor" id="U.2"></span>
- Topology
- Backward and forward compatibility
- SATA and PATA
- SATA 1.5 Gbit/s and SATA 3 Gbit/s <span class="anchor" id="FORCE-150"></span><span class="anchor" id="OPT1-ENABLED"></span>
- SATA 3 Gbit/s and SATA 6 Gbit/s
- SATA 1.5 Gbit/s and SATA 6 Gbit/s
- Comparison to other interfaces
- SATA and SCSI
- Comparison with other buses
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
SATA (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 industry compatibility specifications originate from the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) which are then released by the INCITS Technical Committee T13, AT Attachment (INCITS T13).
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