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A SATA 2.0 (3 Gbit/s) PCI Express ×1 expansion card, having two built-in SATA port multipliers (square chips to the left and right of the middle of PCB) that "splice" card chipset's two SATA ports into a total of eight ports. A Serial ATA port multiplier (SATA PM) is a device that allows multiple SATA devices to be connected to a single SATA ...
The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the register-level interface of Serial ATA (SATA) host controllers in a non-implementation-specific manner in its motherboard chipsets.
A 3.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive A 2.5-inch Serial ATA solid-state drive. SATA was announced in 2000 [4] [5] in order to provide several advantages over the earlier PATA interface such as reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40 or 80), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signaling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing ...
The Serial ATA interface was designed primarily for interfacing with hard disk drives (HDDs), doubling its native speed with each major revision: maximum SATA transfer speeds went from 1.5 Gbit/s in SATA 1.0 (standardized in 2003), through 3 Gbit/s in SATA 2.0 (standardized in 2004), to 6 Gbit/s as provided by SATA 3.0 (standardized in 2009). [9]
The SAS is a new generation serial communication protocol for devices designed to allow for much higher speed data transfers and is compatible with SATA. SAS uses a mechanically identical data and power connector to standard 3.5-inch SATA1/SATA2 HDDs, and many server-oriented SAS RAID controllers are also capable of addressing SATA hard drives.
On a desktop computer the port is simply a connector, usually mounted on a bracket at the back accessible from outside the machine, connected to motherboard sources of SATA, USB, and power at 5 V and 12 V. No change is required to drivers, registry or BIOS settings and the USB support is independent of the SATA connection. [citation needed]
Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) is a driver SATA AHCI and a firmware-based RAID solution built into a wide range of Intel chipsets. Currently also is installed as a driver for Intel Optane temporary storage units. It contains two operation modes that follow two Intel specific modes rather than the SATA standard. The name modes and the ...
2 SATA ports supporting 6/3/1.5 gigabaud operation; 4 SATA ports supporting 3/1.5 gigabaud operation; one PCI 2.3 32-bit 33 MHz bus interface; 14 USB 2.0 ports; single-port Gigabit Ethernet controller; Active Management Technology 7.0 and Anti-Theft Technology; HD Audio controller; Some chipset variants have additional mass storage interfaces: