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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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PATA ribbon cable as an IDE cable. They’re the same thing, so don’t miss

this one on the exam!

SATA did away with the two drives per cable of PATA. Each drive

connects to one port. Further, there’s no maximum number of drives—many

motherboards today support up to eight SATA drives (see Figure 8-13). Want

more? Snap in a SATA HBA and load ’em up!

Figure 8-13 SATA cable plugged into typical motherboard (note the other

available socket)

The biggest news about SATA is in data throughput. As the name implies,

SATA devices transfer data in serial bursts instead of parallel, as PATA

devices do. Typically, you might not think of serial devices as being faster

than parallel, but in this case, a SATA device’s single stream of data moves

much faster than the multiple streams of data coming from a parallel ATA

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