SATA PCI controllers

SATA

— the presence of at least one SATA connector on the controller board. Let's clarify that in this case, the connectors of the original SATA standard are meant, and not the later SATA2 and SATA3.

Initially, the SATA standard was developed for connecting internal drives, primarily hard drives (HDDs). Specifically, the original version of this interface supports speeds up to 150 MB / s (1.2 Gbps); this is quite a bit even by the standards of modern HDDs, not to mention faster solid state drives. Therefore, although a few years ago, up to 4 SATA connectors could be found in PCI controllers, nowadays, solutions with such an interface have practically fallen into disuse.