3ware's Escalade 8500 series of Serial ATA RAID controllers uses a switched architecture under which each hard drive is connected to its own cable, said Barbara Murphy, director of product marketing.

See serial interface. Earlier printers used a Centronics parallel cable to attach to the computer, and disk drives used a parallel ATA (PATA) cable to connect to the motherboard. See Centronics ...

Serial ATA (SATA) was introduced in 2003 and brought many improvements including smaller, less expensive cables, native hot-swapping, and faster data rates. Within five years of replacing PATA ...