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britton · Member Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 4

I'm shopping around for a new virtual server and I'm seeing the mention 'SATA' a lot. What is it? What does it mean?

Thanks for any help.

admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 614

Hello Britton and welcome to the forum

SATA Serial is a computer bus technology primarily designed for the transfer of data to and from a hard disk.

It is the successor to the legacy AT Attachment standard (ATA).

This older technology was retroactively renamed Parallel ATA (PATA) to distinguish it from Serial ATA.

Both SATA and PATA are IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) drives, although IDE is often misused to indicate PATA drives.

Older IDE drives would transfer about 133 Megs a second. The newer SATA drives are capable of transferring approx. 150 Megs a second instead.

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http://www.avantex.org/virtual-servers.html

Hope that helps

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Julia · Member Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 162

-good answer admin-

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Tommy · Member Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 222

Admin is always right

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strathcom · Member Joined: 21 Nov 2009 Posts: 64

-thank you- Now even I know!

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