Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

aliases:

• SATA

A type of port used to connect internal hard drives to the motherboard. It's data connectors use 7-pins while it's power cable connector uses 15 pins.

Features:

• meter long cable
• SATA3 cables have a data transfer speed of 600 MB/s
• come in two connectors: straight and L-shaped
• uses the AHCI standard to communicate with the storage bus on the motherboard

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