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Are SATA and ATA the same?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

SATA is ATA, but there are many ATA. SATA is an acronym for Serial AT Attachment, AT being the successor to the PC standard of desktop computers. There are many ATA standards, lots, but short answer is they are outdated Paralel, so we coined a new term to cover all the old ATA devices: PATA.

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