Specifications:
Red/yellow/pink serial ATA cable
OEM/VCOM brand ATA cable
CE/UL certificated
SATA cable/7pin to 7pin cable
Specification grew out of the need to support growing bandwidth requirements current parallel ATA (known as ATA 100)will be unable to maintain in future years
Peak transfer rates of 150MB, or 1.5gigabits per second are achieved over a 7pin interface
Serial ATA architecture is forward looking in that it was created with a 10-year road map in mind
The super set of capabilities beyond those of Parallel ATA
Will enable additional usage models and over time allow Serial ATA to migrate into lower-cost PCs, notebooks, set-tops, low-end workstations, servers and low-cost raid storage units