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.

SATA Data Cable

1.Straight and right angle SATA cable configurations

2.SATA Cables are available in 7, 13, 15 and 22 pins