SATA is the high speed data flow between hard drives and processors. Most new computers use SATA rather than ATA
You should check the exact type of your SATA drives, and what cables they require, on their website: SATA drives come as SATA-1 and SATA-2, and also as E-SATA [external SATA], I believe. The cables may be different, check it out on Wiki or your mfrs site. cheers!
It wouldn't be a SATA motherboard if you couldn't connect SATA drives to it.
Only if you ive up the DVD drive and buy a special caddy that supports a second hard drive. These caddies come in IDE and SATA flavors. If you buy the SATA, then it will take a SATA drive. Not sure thoough if the BIOS would allow you to boot off this 2nd HD though !
The Sata II is has a transfer speed that is two times as fast as the original Sata. The Sata has a communication speed of 1.5 Gbit/s while the Sata II is 3.0 Gbit/s.
SATA 3 is backwards compatible, it means you connect it the same way as SATA 1.
Ø SATA I- 1.5 Gb/sec, SATA II- 3 Gb/sec and SATA III- 6 Gb/sec
Its faster
Ø SATA I- 1.5 Gb/sec, SATA II- 3 Gb/sec and SATA III- 6 Gb/sec
Speed of sata 1 is 1.5 Gbps Speed of sata 2 is 3 Gbps
SATA power connector is a type of power cable with which we can provide Disks power from the mother board. SATA Power cables are connected from sata point on motherboard to the drive.
Yes, SATA is real.
SATA (Serial ATA)