New SATA Standard Announced
Category: Storage / Hard Drives, General NewsPosted: September 21, 2009 07:36PM
Author: Ediseye
In netbooks as well as notebooks that have special hard drives inside of them, different connectors have been used for many different makes and models. Toshiba is announcing however that it is putting a standard up for hard drives that use the SATA interface in netbook platforms. The new standard, known as mSATA, will be shown off first in Toshiba hard drives, and other users and manufacturers of the drives that will follow at a later time include SAMSUNG, Dell, HP, SanDisk, Lenovo, as well as STEC. Hopefully with the new standard will come lower prices as they get used more, but most of all, this will allow manufacturers to all have one form of SATA, instead of building and customizing their own for certain specifications.
