[Ham-Computers] SATA

[Dale Miller]

Loren Moline WA7SKT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone tell me why they have gone to Serial ATA drives?
>
> How can someone say that serial could be as fast as parallel data 
> transfer.
>
> Just like USB external drives. No matter how fast USB is I can't 
> believe it wouldn't be slower than parallel data transfer.
>
>  
> Loren   WA7SKT
>

It is not parallel per say....but don't know why Serial is faster.
Now USB is much faster, don't know if it is faster than scsi or not but 
it is faster than the parallel or serial port.

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