motherboard SATA RAID?

Q: What is SATA RAID? What is PATA? And what is SATA 3Gb/s?

A: SATA is Serial ATA, it's an interface your computer uses to communicate with hard drives using that standard. SATA 3Gb/Sec is also known as SATAII, it's a standard that improves upon the SATA transfer speed of 1.5Gb/Sec, but is backward compatible with it. PATA is also known as simply ATA (normally followed with a number such as ATA-100, ATA-133) also called IDE, this is the standard the older hard drives that are still quite common but being rapidly replaced by SATA. RAID is Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It's for improved data security. There are difference levels of RAID. The 2 most popular are Raid 0 which involves 2 hard drives one being a mirror of the other and RAID 5 in which the data is stored across 3 or more drives in such a way that if any one of them fails it's contents can be rebuilt on a new drive from the information on the other drives. SATA RAID is RAID implemented using SATA hard drives.

Related items