SATA

Specifications
(From A10 EVB Manual)


 * Supports SATA 1.5Gb/s, and SATA 3.0Gb/s
 * Compliant with SATA Spec. 2.6, and AHCI Revision 1.3 Specifications
 * Supports industry-standard AMBA High-Performance Bus (AHB) and it is fully compliant with the AMBA Specification, Revision 2.0.
 * Supports 32-bit Little Endian
 * OOB signaling detection and generation
 * SATA 1.5Gb/s and SATA 3.0Gb/s speed negotiation when Tx OON signaling is selected
 * Supports device hot-plugging
 * Support power management features including automatic Partial to Slumber transition
 * Internal DMA Engine for Command and Data Transactions
 * Supports hardware-assisted Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for up to 32-entries
 * Support external SATA (eSATA)

Performance
It has been tested to work up to 60MB/s