The Serial ATA 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 superset 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

Applications:

Serial ATA technology offers higher bandwidth and a wider range of applications including the following:
1.CDs, DVDs
2.Tapes Devices
3.High Capacity Removable Devices
4.Zip Drives
5.CD-RWs *HD Device

CABLE ASSEMBLY:

Straight and right angle cable exits.
*Low pin count using serial data transmission, Four signals and three grounds.
*Cable length comparable to S-ATA (<1M).
*Transfer rate exceeding best S-ATA (~150 MB/s) with scalability to higher rates