Overview

Serial ATA (or SATA) has been designed as a replacement for the existing 40 way IDE cable, the SATA connector and cable are smaller (which improves air circulation), with a reduced operating voltage and pin amount (7 as opposed to 40), the current data transfer rate is ATA-150 (150Mb/ps). Each connected SATA device or conversion needs its own cable, this removes the old master or slave set-up and allows for improved data transmission and access speed.