MicroSATA connectors on the new hard drives for laptop / notebook computers
and mobile devices

The new ultra mobile hard drives like Samsung Spinpoint N1 have new connectors.

These little drives are powered with low voltage, only 3.3 V instead of traditional 5 Volts for regular SATA hard drives. In addition, new design of drive's interface does not allow using standard SATA drive cables.

MicroSATA hard drives are mostly comes in 1.8" and smaller form-factor
(disk size); the other connectors for those micro-drives are ZIF and CEATA.

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