Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
(storage)Serial ATA is designed to be scalable. The original SATA/150or "SATA 1" can transfer up to 150 MBps and "SATA 3.0Gbit/s" has a maximum data rate of 300 MBps.
Both SATA and PATA drives have built-in low level controlelectronics but the term IDE is usually restricted toparallel ATA drives.
http://www.serialata.org/.