Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and ... version of SATA and — lately — NVME connectors. But a standard predating all of this was very common in high-end systems: SCSI.

Today's hard drives use SATA or SAS interfaces, which are the serial versions of their PATA and SCSI predecessors. SATA drives are found in most personal computers unless they use solid state ...

is employed for SATA drives. Expanders use the Serial Management Protocol (SMP). See SCSI and hard disk interfaces. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...