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SATA (Serial ATA) is a serial bus typically used to connect a PC to mass storage devices. It was developed as a replacement for the ATA parallel bus and offers many advantage including hot-swapping, increased transfer speed and reduced cabling cost and size because fewer conductors are required.

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Currently I'm trying to implement SMARC carrier board and I'm a bit confused about M.2 PCIe, SATA and USB3.0 signals connections (Rx/Tx swapping). First, the PCIe: SMARC standard describes PCIE_x_TX ...
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I've inherited what I believe is a Dell LA08A011 disk drive with scans of good ol' fashioned paper family photos from ~20 years ago. I'd like to get the files off it but I'm not keen on paying >£...
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Good evening, everyone. I am looking for advice and hope you can help me. I am repairing a PCB (first photo), but the white flex cable with 12 pins spaced 0.5mm apart was directly soldered to the ...
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Can I use SATA traces (SSD_RX+/- & SSD_TX+/-) on a PCB for USB 3.0 data transfer? I am designing a test system for PCBs. There are SATA lines and I think this 2 pairs can use for USB 3.0 data ...
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So, I've bought this SATA case from internet but it has a really bright light on it and annoys me. I don't haver any kind of tool to manage any electronic component, and neither have electrical tape ...
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Recently I purchased a SATA to USB adapter. To be able to access 2.5-inch (laptop) and 3.5-inch (desktop) hard drives. To my surprise, there is a board to do the conversion. Question Why there should ...
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Here are some pictures of what I meant. Unfortunately there are no labels near the components.
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I am looking to design a SATA adapter board which interfaces an FPGA LPC FMC connector with a SATA connector. This board will contain the 6 signals (RX+, RX-, TX+, TX-, and Clk+, Clk-) along with ...
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I am trying to run the LiteSATA bench file provided for the Nexys Video (Artix-7 xc7a200t-sbg484-1). The board is new and does not have anything connected to it, and I am building / loading the ...
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For two SATA SSDs I want to crimp one or two 15-pin SATA power cables with a length of about 30 cm (12 inch). Since space is a concern, I want to use cables thinner than AWG 16/17/18. I know that SATA ...
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I am making a very low-cost system with a Allwinner A20 chip as the heart. I would like to have a main boot drive and a separate disk drive. Sadly, to my knowledge there is only one SATA port. I can't ...
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Can anyone explain to me how current/load works in a circuit, please? Example: four SATA HDDs connected in series via single cable. Each HDD draws 12 V @ 2 A during the start. Does that mean that ...
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What I am doing is making mPCI-E and mSATA work together in one slot on my Xilinx FPGA. PCIE always only have coupling capacitors on the TX sides(RX sides's capacitors is on the Endpoint Devices), ...
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I am reading about SATA power here. They say the following: The power cables for the SATA interface are of similar construction as the signal cables, but have 15 conductors. They supply power to the ...
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I'm building fan controller for my PC water cooling loop, it will consist of: 1x Raspberry Pi Pico, 6x 3-pins fan headers, 0.5A max each, 1x water pump header, 2.5A max, 1x thermistor header for ...
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