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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Most hard drives sold today are SATA drives.

NOTE The SATA 3.3 (2016) revision increased supported drive sizes,

among other things. The throughput speed of the interface did not increase.

eSATA and Other External Drives

External SATA (eSATA) extended the SATA bus to external devices, as the

name would imply. The eSATA drives used connectors that looked similar to

internal SATA connectors, but were keyed differently so you couldn’t

mistake one for the other. Figure 8-15 shows an eSATA connector on the

back of a motherboard.

Figure 8-15 eSATA connector

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