Serial ATA bits

	42kiB A Serial ATA drive, its a Seagate, in a Sea-shell (they're good).
	40kiB Note that some of the contacts are longer than others. This is important in hot-swapping. I read somewhere that the power contacts should be made in three groups (ground, pre-charge, the rest) but this HDD seems to have them in only two groups. The data interface has a differential pair for transmit and receive, and three ground wires.
	28kiB A Serial ATA data lead. Note that this lead is only 20cm long, it was the only lead that I could buy cost-effectively from the supplier I was ordering from. In a single-disk system, with the drive mounted under the floppy bay, you'd probably be ok, but I'd really recommend a longer lead. By contrast, the 1m lead supplied with the adaptec card I bought is a bit excessive, the diagonal dimension of my biggest case is only just 1m.
	35kiB A close-up of the connector on the Serial ATA data lead.
	32kiB A Serial ATA power adaptor lead. Which is nice.

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