This standard has changed and improved a lot over time, and today we are going to see those versions, when they were produced and the difference between them, to see how they have evolved.
SATA Types
As you can imagine, the first of these was SATA 1, which stands for Serial AT Attachment. This standard was launched in the year 2000. Until then, what was used was PATA, but its errors and inefficiencies meant that it had to evolve to another standard that today, 23 years later, we continue to use, although with improved versions. of these SATA cables.
2003 – The first one, 1.0, was also called Serial ATA 150. It was officially presented in 2003, although it had already been 3 years that this technology was being worked on.
2004 – It didn’t last long, because SATA 2.0 was presented only 1 year later, because it had managed to double the speed of the previous standard. A very important step to consolidate this technology.
It was also called Serial ATA 300, which corresponded to double that of the previous one, precisely for that reason. And what also led to begin to see the first SSD drives due to the new transfer speeds allowed. Which would be 300 MB/s, which we could already imagine from its name.
2008 – This time it took us a bit longer to get to see a new version, the Serial ATA 600, or SATA 3.0, which doubled its transfer speed again to 600 MB/s. Although the only devices capable of taking advantage of this speed were still SSDs.
? – SATA 4.0. You may be wondering why the date does not appear, and it is that, yes, for 15 years we have continued to maintain the same standard and it has not been possible to get an improved version of the one we have been using since 2008, with which those 1200 MB/ s.
The complications to do it and the little need make us believe that we will never see this standard, just as PATA died at its limit, SATA looks like it will end the same, so the last known version will be 3.0.
We can only thank you for these decades and make way for better standards. Speeds such as USB 3.2 or even the 4.0 that is to come already exceed this technology with profit.
The SATA port also doesn’t provide high enough bandwidth speeds to take advantage of the NVMe memory in more advanced SSDs, so a new technology is needed to do so.
All this brings us to a point. Say goodbye to this technology. I am sure that you continue to use many standards and devices with it, but little by little it will give way to a better one. We do not know how far we will reach the transfer speed, what is clear to us is that SATA will never exceed 600MB/sHey, it’s not bad at all and we have to thank you for the time it worked for us.
