Talk:SATA

Date inconsistency

The fact sheet on the top right of the page states 2003 as the year created; however, the article references that SATA drives have been shipping since 2001. Clarification required.

209.37.15.57 (talk) 12:58, 9 August 2010 (UTC) Jason Whitehurst

Need for clarification/differentiation in eSATA

While I'm certainly no expert in computer technology, I noticed a discrepancy about eSATA that should be resolved. Specifically, in the table "SATA in comparison to other buses", eSATA is listed as only supporting SATA II 3.0 Gb/s. However, I have found a commercially available eSATA hard drive that only provides the max transfer rate of SATA I (1.5 GB/s): the Acomdata 3.5" PureDrive USB, FireWire A & eSATA External Hard Drive http://www.acomdata.com/app/stx.productdetail.asp?did=20

Can anyone knowledgeable in this area comment on this or correct it?

Ryancamp1 (talk) 22:30, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Right Angle or Left Angle Cable Connector

There is a picture of an SATA cable with a connector bent at a right angle in this article. I think that the connector depicted in this image is of a less commonly used configuration and should be replaced with an image depicting the more common configuration.

Image from Article

StarTech sells two types of cables with bent connectors. They refer to one as a "right" angle cable and the other as a "left" angle cable. I have not stopped to figure out how they came up with their terminology.

The item sold as a "right" angle cable connects to a hard drive oriented right side up with the cable draped down. The "left" angle cable connects to the same hard drive with the cable draped up. The connector depicted in the image included in the article is in the "left" angle configuration.

I am inclined to think that most hard drives installed in the horizontal orientation are right side up, as is found in the Dell Precision T7500. Therefore, the more common configuration of the bent SATA connector is that of the one on StarTech's "right" angle cable.

I recommend replacing the image in the article with one depicting the connector in StarTech's "right" angle configuration.

I would like some feedback on this suggestion.

I would have uploaded the images that I referenced in this post, but I did not have time to figure out how to upload them and it was not obvious. Also, although I think my use of the images to which I have linked would come under the fair use of copyrighted material in the context of this post, I do not know if the image in the article could be replaced with an image from the StarTech website without getting permission from StarTech.

I would like some feedback on this issue from someone more familiar with this issue as it relates to using images in Wikipedia articles.

--Steven L. Marcus 02:17, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

"3.4.1 eSATAP" needs to link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA/USB somehow

192.18.1.36 (talk) 11:03, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

is esatap actually a standard?

My searches find a lot of user help sites but nothing official. If it is a standard does anyone know what the official name for it is? 91.135.10.23 (talk) 09:41, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Probably a question for eSATAp. — Aluvus t/c 23:13, 29 August 2010 (UTC)