18 Inch SATA 6Gbps Cable W/Locking Latch Blue, CNE565385

welcome to NCIX tech tips today's episode is going to be about SATA or SATA or serial ata so let's start with a little history lesson and that is why I brought along this motherboard right here to my left your right and let's have a look at what SATA replaced no not Jonathan fatality wendel but rather the IDE interface so IDE or parallel ata is what we used to use to connect our drives that is hard drives optical drives whatever the case may be to our motherboard or to our storage cards so IDE had some complications and limitations you had to set master and slave devices it was a big fat wide ribbon cable that was just that just ugly and we hampered airflow inconvenient all that stuff so and it was also slow slow compared to what we were going to need down the road from a storage interface so a few years back board started shipping with not only IDE or parallel ata but also SATA or seri