Serial ATA

Also known as High Speed Serialized AT Attachment

SATA (Serial AT Attachment)<!--

Key facts

Computer hardware bus.name: SATA
Computer hardware bus.fullname: 120px
Computer hardware bus.caption: From top to bottom, SATA Certification Logo, SATA cable, and two first-generation (1.5 Gbit/s) SATA data connectors on a motherboard.
Computer hardware bus.invent date: 2000
Computer hardware bus.invent name: Serial ATA Working Group
Computer hardware bus.replaces: Parallel ATA (PATA)
Computer hardware bus.speed: Half-duplex 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 Gbit/s
Computer hardware bus.style: s
Computer hardware bus.hotplug: Optional
Computer hardware bus.external: Optional (eSATA)

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Official website: sata-io.org
Image: SATA-cable.jpg

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data transfer speed: 6
Commons category: Serial ATA
Commons gallery: Serial ATA
publication date: 2003-01-07
privacy policy URL: sata-io.org/contact?q=node/79
inception: 2000-00-00

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Contents

History
Features
Hot plug
Advanced Host Controller Interface
Revisions
SATA revision 1.0 (1.5 Gbit/s, 150 MB/s, Serial ATA-150)
SATA revision 2.0 (3 Gbit/s, 300 MB/s, Serial ATA-300)
SATA revision 2.5
SATA revision 2.6
SATA revision 3.0 (6 Gbit/s, 600 MB/s, Serial ATA-600)
SATA revision 3.1
SATA revision 3.2
SATA revision 3.3
SATA revision 3.4
SATA revision 3.5
Cables, connectors, and ports
Data connector
SATA power connectors
Standard power connector (15 pins)
Slimline power connector (6 pins)
Micro connector
Additional pins
eSATA
eSATAp
Pre-standard implementations
Mini-SATA (mSATA)
SFF-8784 connector
SATA Express
M.2 (NGFF)
U.2 (SFF-8639)
Topology
Backward and forward compatibility
SATA and PATA
SATA 1.5 Gbit/s and SATA 3 Gbit/s
SATA 3 Gbit/s and SATA 6 Gbit/s
SATA 1.5 Gbit/s and SATA 6 Gbit/s
Comparison to other interfaces
SATA and SCSI
Comparison with other buses
See also
Notes
References
External links

SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices.

Serial ATA industry compatibility specifications originate from the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) which are then released by the INCITS Technical Committee T13, AT Attachment (INCITS T13).