SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA) - Term Description

What is: SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA)

Description:
A new standard for connecting hard drives to computer systems. SATA is based on serial signaling technology, unlike current IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drives that use parallel signaling. SATA cables are more flexible and smaller than the ribbon cables required for conventional PATA hard drives. SATA cables can be much longer than PATA ribbon cables. SATA requires fewer conductors, only 7 in SATA as compared with 40 in PATA. As a result, electromagnetic interference (EMI) is less of a problem. The SATA signal voltage of 250 mV is much lower than the 5V required for PATA as well.

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S-AIT (Sony Advanced Intelligent Tape)	SAN (storage area network)	SANmark
SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA)	SBus	scheduled backup
SCSI	secondary port	sector
Serial ATA	serial attached SCSI	server
serverless backup	SFP (small form-factor pluggable)	SGNP (secure grid naming protocol)
Shortcuts	SLR	SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association)
soft sector	SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture)	SPC (Storage Performance Council)
SRAM (static random access memory)	SRM (storage resource management)	SSD (solid state disk)
SSF (Supported Solutions Forum)	SSP (storage service provider)	storage capacity
storage density	storage location	Storage Medium
Strings	SuperDLT	Super DLTtape
Syntax	system backup