Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), theconsortium dedicated tosustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of SATA technology, todayannounced the availability of the Serial ATA Revision 2.6 specification. Thisupdated specification combines the previously published SATA Revision 2.5material with new feature definitions and enhancements that will enabledevelopers to integrate the technology into new applications.
Benefits include:
• Internal Slimline cable and connector – enables SATA optical drives to beincluded in smaller form factors
• Internal Micro SATA connector for 1.8" HDD – facilitates SATA hard drives inUltra Mobile PC applications
• Mini SATA Internal/ External Multilane cable and connector – provides accessfor internal use in high bandwidth backplane designs, and also external uses ineSATA or xSATA protocols for high bandwidth external storage enclosures
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Priority enhancement – adds priority to data incomplex workload environments
• NCQ Unload enhancement – permits robust use in laptop environments where thedrive may be dropped
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