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SATA or Serial ATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is the natural 

successor for the Parallel ATA interface that is commonly used today.

The following are considered major features of SATA:
w  150MB/s maximum transfer rate (300MB/s and 600MB/s planned for the 

future).

w  Hot-Swappable
w  Two power saving modes:  partial and slumber
w  Overlapping commands
w  Tagged command queueing
w  Seven wire data cable (compared to the 40 pin connectors used today)
w  Cable length of 1m

3.  Will I be able to still use a SATA drive like the current drives? 

 

The procedure for formatting disks and creating partitions remains the same.

There is a Serial ATA organization with a website address of www.serialata.

org.

It is true that SATA standards allow for hot swapping external SATA hard drives, 

however  some  motherboard  manufacturers  may  not  have  included  support 

for all of the SATA standards on the first release of their products. If you are 

experiencing problems when trying to hot swap your EZ Bus DTS, check with 

your motherboard manufacturer for a bios update or a SATA controller patch 

to fix the problem.