Article: Seagate Is First to Demonstrate Full-Speed Native Serial ATA Hard Drive Design, Ready to Integrate Into Future Products; Seagate Will Ship Serial ATA Products Later This Year to Enable Simpler, More Flexible, and More Powerful PCs, Home Network Hubs, and Consumer Electronics Devices.

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- Seagate today demonstrated the industry's first full-speed native Serial ATA hard drive technology, in form factor and ready to integrate into future Seagate products. Seagate's breakthrough design is the first to use on-board, native Serial ATA technology that does not need to translate incoming Serial ATA signals into Parallel ATA protocols. This ensures the design can provide the full 150-Mbytes-per-second Serial ATA transfer speed, with no added overhead or performance penalty. Seagate is also the first to design in single-chip functions that previously required a physical layer chip, link and transport layer chip, and AT controller chip. ...