An internal SATA connected hard drive can share a data cable with how many other drives?

The correct answer is A. 0. SATA (Serial ATA) is a point-to-point interface, meaning each SATA data cable connects exactly one drive to one controller port - it cannot be shared. The answer is 0 other drives. This is a key architectural difference from older PATA/IDE, where two devices (master and slave)…

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SATA (Serial ATA) is a point-to-point interface, meaning each SATA data cable connects exactly one drive to one controller port - it cannot be shared. The answer is 0 other drives. This is a key architectural difference from older PATA/IDE, where two devices (master and slave) could share a single ribbon cable. SATA's dedicated point-to-point topology improves performance by eliminating bus contention between devices.

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