Serial ATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. It is the successor to the legacy Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standard.
"The new computer drive was connected using sata cables, which offer faster data transfer speeds than the older ATA standard."
The word sata is a blend of the words serial and ATA, combining them to describe the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment interface used by computers. This term was created to distinguish this newer storage standard from its older parallel predecessor.