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Host Adapter
Hard
Drive
Hard
Drive
Granite Digital • 3101 Whipple Rd. • Union City, Ca. 94587
www.granitedigital.com
How SATA Works
SATA II (Serial ATA) is a High Performance Serial Bus designed to transfer
data at up to 300MBytes per second. This ultra-fast data transfer rate is perfect
for storage applications where speed is a critical issue. The low cost of the
SATA drives also provide affordable backup and archiving solutions.
Granite offers a variety of host adapters that support the Hot-Swap capa-
bilities of SATA. These PCI cards and PCMCIA adapters support multiple
drives. Check the Granite website
(www.granitedigital.com)
for a complete
listing all our host adapters.
SATA is simple to configure because each drive operates on a separate
channel. The cable goes from the host adapter to the drive and ends there.
Installation is only a matter of plugging in the host adapter, plugging in the
cable, turning on the drive and booting up the computer.
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