The late-2011 MacBook Pro supports SATA III—but Apple included only a SATA II hard drive (HDD), which may have been for cost reasons, but also should have been a clue.

Revision 3.3 offered users greater choice and flexibility, with staggered startup options and an activity indicator, as well as improved data center maintenance and hard drive disc space. SATA ...

Hard Disk Drives– primary storage for any computer.; Optical Drives– CD, Blu Ray drives, etc., require a SATA interface.; Solid State Drive– SATA SSDs also need SATA power cables and data ...

The SATA standard has been upgraded three times to provide speed improvements over the previous generation. SATA I, SATA II and SATA III can transfer data between the motherboard and the component ...

In addition to 3.5-inch magnetic hard drives, SSDs in 2.5-inch format still rely on the SATA 600 interface. These flash drives are now available in capacities of up to 8TB. IDG ...

SATA hard drives are available in both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch sizes, whereas SATA SSDs are typically limited to the 2.5-inch form factor. Over the years, SATA has undergone multiple generations of ...

That may sound astonishingly slow, but compared to SATA HDDs, the difference is still like night and day—a 7,200 RPM hard-disk drive tops out around 160MB per second.

Clark estimated that by year&'s end, 80 percent of all 3.5-inch ATA hard drives will be SATA vs. 20 percent PATA, with the latter all but disappearing in 2007.

The Promise Pegasus J2i is a SATA HDD enclosure for the Mac Pro. It features two bays and comes pre-populated with an 8TB Toshiba HDD.