SATA hard drive capacity

A SATA hard drive is a way (in terms of interface) of a hard disk. Use the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment interface. You can read more about them, and possible data capacity, in this article. Please note that the information is not used here as professional advice in this area, nor should it be considered as a replacement for that.

SATA is the successor to Parallel ATA (PATA) or IDE interface. Records were alsofor this specification. As of this writing, the latest version, SATA 3.0, has the possibility of transferring data at up to 6.0 gigabits per second. This is not the same as the standard commonly used gigabytes but under which the measure is 0.75, or be about 768 megabytes.

Even the time of writing, hard selection of at least 2 TB (terabyte) SATA was for the general public. A terabyte is 1024 gigabytes, or 1,048,576Megabytes. Not all users need much space, But because it can hold, for example, more than 800 average two-hour movie in DVD quality. be produced for users who considered less space, the options as 1 TB, 500 GB and 320 GB capacity drives with even lower, too. As of this writing, it was a 2 TB model could also be due to under $ 200, in fact, some were under $ 150. On the other hand, could a 500 GB hard drive to find for less than $ 50 in costs.