Most desktop storage systems nowadays use a parallel bus interface referred to as Ultra ATA/100. The Parallel ATA interface has been in use on desktop systems as the mainstream internal storage interconnects since the 1980s (over 15 years!). Nowadays PCs demand higher speeds, more robust data integrity and flexibility for innovative smaller designs. Physically and electrically, the current parallel bus has run into limitations that will prevent this bus from providing higher speeds of data transfers. The move to a new technology is inevitable in the eyes of industry leaders such as Intel, Dell, Seagate, Maxtor and APT.
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