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Serial ATA - Next Generation Storage Interface
White Papers Serial ATA was designed to overcome a number of limitations of Parallel ATA. The most significant limitation of Parallel ATA is the difficulty in increasing the data rate beyond 100 MBytes/s. Parallel ATA uses a single-ended signaling system that...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Implementing Serial ATA On HP Business Desktops
White Papers This white paper covers the implementation of Serial ATA (SATA) technology on HP Desktop systems. It is a new high-speed serial interface for mass storage that will eventually replace Parallel ATA (PATA), the current mass storage attachment standard.
[October 11, 2004, 0:00]
Fujitsu Puts Serial ATA Into Notebook Drives
News Fujitsu has announced what it claims is the first line of notebook hard drives using the Serial ATA standard, which boosts data transfer speed, among other improvements. The MHT20xxBH hard-drive series will be the first 2.5-inch Serial ATA drive on...
[January 5, 2004, 12:20]
Serial ATA And Serial Attached SCSI Technologies
White Papers This paper describes the current state of parallel ATA and SCSI technologies and the barriers they face in meeting the requirements of future enterprise technologies. Then it describes the fundamental features of serial I/O technologies that enable...
[May 15, 2004, 0:00]
Fujitsu Puts Serial ATA Into Notebook Drives
Talkback Last time I checked, Serial ATA was used for INTERNAL hard drives, and FireWire for EXTERNAL hard drives. That, and Apple actually *uses* Serial ATA in its top-of-the-line G5 computers. I don't think there will be a lot of "encroachment" from Apple...
[January 6, 2004, 8:34]
Implementing Serial ATA Technology
White Papers The Serial ATA specification has been finalized and released, and many companies are moving forward to transition to this new interface. In some cases, bridge chips may be used to convert conventional ATA interfaces into a serial ATA interface...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Fujitsu Puts Serial ATA Into Notebook Drives
Talkback You are of course quite right, and we have removed the erroneous reference to FireWire.
[January 6, 2004, 8:34]
Western Digital Debuts Serial ATA Hard Disks
News The first Raptor hard drive rotates at 10,000 revolutions per minute, offers 36GB of storage and sports the new Serial ATA interface for transferring data. Western Digital wants to dig its talons into business data.
[February 11, 2003, 8:30]
Fujitsu Puts Serial ATA Into Notebook Drives
Talkback Not necessarily. SATA 2.5" drives will originally only be used in external enclosures, from a SATA Cardbus adapter. Until the notebook makers and Intel work out how to integrate a SATA controller on a laptop motherboard, this will compete with...
[June 15, 2005, 18:08]
Serial ATA Unleashes The Power Of ATA
White Papers Most desktop storage systems nowadays use a parallel bus interface referred to as Ultra ATA/100. The Parallel ATA interface has been in use on desktop systems as the mainstream internal storage interconnects since the 1980s (over 15 years!
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
Fujitsu Puts Serial ATA Into Notebook Drives
Talkback Serial ATA don't really compete with each other. Most people familiar with current bus technologies know that Serial ATA is the successor to (& competes with) ATA/133, and is an internal only bus for connecting drives - compared to FireWire, which...
[January 6, 2004, 14:51]
IDF: Next Generation Serial ATA Kicks Off
News Barely six months after the first version of the storage interface Serial ATA was announced -- and before product is available -- the working group has announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) in San Francisco that work is starting on version 2.
[February 26, 2002, 8:57]
SAS Investment Protection
White Papers The new serial interfaces - Serial ATA (SATA) for PCs and workstations and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) for mission-critical computing - have also been designed to improve performance, reliability and scalability.
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Notebooks Get Capacity Boost From Fujitsu
News Fujitsu claimed to have taken "a giant step" toward closing the performance and capacity disparities between PC and notebook hard drives on Monday, with the launch of a 160GB, 2.5-inch serial ATA hard disk drive, the MHV2160BT.
[August 22, 2005, 17:00]
Fast PCs: Can Disk Drives Keep Up?
News Serial ATA, the new interface standard for fast-talking disk drives, received a considerable boost this week. The Serial ATA Working Group has published a draft of the 1.0 specification for the new interface for disk drives -- ranging from hard...
[December 20, 2000, 9:30]
IBM Expands Storage Line
News IBM will expand its collection of data storage systems later this month by adding a lower-cost disk storage system based on Serial ATA interface hard drives. The FastT100 will sell for a lower price than other IBM Fast systems, because it uses less...
[May 13, 2004, 9:05]
Seagate Serves Up 60GB On A Platter
News Seagate's 120GB, dual-disc Barracuda ATA V drives will be the first to support Serial ATA, a new type of connection for transferring data to and from a hard drive. Porter said Serial ATA is destined to become the connection of choice for hard...
[June 25, 2002, 10:22]
Serial Hard Drive Interface Compatibility
White Papers Components that are based on the aging interface are increasingly being replaced by their evolved serial counterparts - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). Among the most significant benefits is that incompatibility between SCSI and...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Fujitsu Ships Higher-capacity Notebook Drive
News The MHW2 BJ series drives have 160GB capacity, spin at 7,200 revolutions per minute to improve data access times and are serial ATA with 3.0Gbps data transfer capacity. The Momentus 5400 series drives also have a capacity of up to 160GB and are...
[March 6, 2007, 15:42]
Hard Disk Makers Collaborate For More Speed
News To ensure ATA keeps pace with ever-faster computers, a consortium has begun work on a new standard called Serial ATA. The group didn't release expected transfer speeds for the new standard, but a significant boost can be expected if the Serial ATA...
[November 28, 2001, 9:10]
