SATA: What It Is and What You Need to Know
SATA is two different things: a physical connector standard and a logical communication bus. When SATA was first designed, the two were linked. In fact, the physical SATA connector can only use the logical SATA bus. However, the SATA bus can be accessed over newer physical connectors. In this article, well cover both. Contents The SATA Bus In computing, a logical bus is a communication protocol to transfer data. SATA stands for Serial AT Attachment....