Parallel ATA (ATA)

Parallel ATA, commonly referred to as simply “ATA”, is an industry specification that evolved from the

original Advanced Technology disk-interface. The ATA standard, first developed in 1984 defines a command

and register set for the interface between the disk drive and the PC. Today’s ATA-133 interface delivers

a maximum data transfer rate of 133 MB/sec and supports two parallel ports, with each port supporting

two internal hard drives. ATA is currently the standard hard disk drive interconnect in desktop PCs and is

implemented in many Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems.

 

Quellennachweis:

http://www.intel.com/technology/serialATA/pdf/NP2108.pdf