A SATA connection is a serial connection, and the data connector has four lines: two for the signal (one each way), and two for power (hot and neutral). SATA cables have smaller connectors, and the wires are housed in a protective sheath that's about 1/6 (rough guess) of the width of an ATA ribbon cable. In addition, SATA technology allows for much faster speeds than ATA was going to be able to allow.
Adj. 1. coercive-serving or intended to coerce; authority is directional instead of coercive. powerful-having great power or force or potency or effect; the most powerful government in western Europe; his powerful arms; a powerful bomb; the horse's powerful kick; powerful drugs; a powerful argument.
Photo by: Connormah Creative Commons. Intolerable Acts, also known as Coercive Acts are the titles referring to the laws that the British Parliament passed in 1774. These laws had something to do with the British colonies in North America. Because of these acts, the Thirteen Colonies were enraged. The Thirteen Colonies would later become the United States. But at that time they were very much a part of the ongoing uprising of what was the American Revolution.