SATA
also: Serial ATA, SATA III, SATA II, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SATA (Serial ATA) is a computer bus interface standard for connecting storage devices like hard drives and SSDs to a motherboard, replacing the older parallel ATA interface.
SATA is a serial protocol that transmits data one bit at a time over a thin cable, offering higher speeds and better reliability than its predecessor, Parallel ATA (PATA). Modern SATA supports speeds up to 6 Gbps (SATA III), though newer NVMe interfaces have largely superseded it for high-performance storage.
In Linux, SATA devices are typically identified as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc., and can be managed with tools like fdisk, lsblk, and smartctl. You can check your system's SATA devices by running lsblk or examining /proc/scsi/scsi.
While SATA drives remain common for bulk storage and backups, they have been largely replaced by NVMe SSDs in modern systems due to NVMe's significantly faster interface and performance capabilities.