SATA and Serial ATA

[wixostrix]

is SATA the same as Serial ATA? I always assumed the SATA was just saying serial ATA without saying serial.

 

[mcyi9ky2]

yes SATA = Serial ATA

there are SATA and SATA2 hard disks on the market....SATA has 150mb/s transfer speed where SATA2 has 300mb/s

 

[wixostrix]

ok, thanks

 

[computermaineack]

Usually SATA 1 is written out as Serial ATA 150, while SATA2 is either just written as SATA or SATA 3gb/s.

 

[Cromewell]

SATA 3.0Gbps is different than SATAII. SATAII includes a bump to 300Mbps but that can be done on SATA I as well.

 

[Geoff]

SATA 3.0Gbps is different than SATAII. SATAII includes a bump to 300Mbps but that can be done on SATA I as well.

I've always heard from everyone, including computer articles, that there are two standards, SATA and SATAII. And that SATAII was the same as SATA3.0.

 

[Cromewell]

http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp