Talk:SATA/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Year created in infobox

If you search on the internet, "when was SATA introduced," you will get conflicting answers. After digging a little bit deeper into this article and its sources, I gather that the correct story is that SATA was announced at the Intel Developer Conference in 2000, but at the time the specification wasn't finished and so the technology wasn't actually out yet. Then, version 1.0 of the spec was released in 2003, and that's when it was in a ready state and people could actually start making SATA drives. Is my understanding of the story correct?

If it is, I think it would make sense to put 2003 as the year created in the infobox (currently it says 2000). It sounds to me like in 2000, SATA was in a state equivalent to when someone has conceptualized, designed, a new invention, but hasn't made anything yet. I would argue that SATA in this state hadn't been invented yet, especially since it is not a physical thing but rather a specification for people to implement.

If there were working prototypes of a drive and motherboard conforming to SATA in 2000 or before 2003, I might say that it had been invented then. But if that's the case, I think the article should also mention those prototypes.

Thoughts? I think this is a gray area (at least with my current knowledge).

Mariachiband49 (talk) 02:58, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

AFAIR, Seagate shipped the first SATA drive in 2002, pre-standard. We'd need a source for that though. --Zac67 (talk)

06:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

There are multiple sources that Seagate shipped in 2002 devices that were compliant with the then current in process version of SATA. It was common for HDDs to ship before any formal spec was published; in fact early on most specifications got published long after the first drive shipped, think IDE, or if at all, think ST-506. the date is almost a WP:SKYISBLUE issue. Tom94022 (talk) 21:58, 31 August 2020 (UTC)