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As technology changes, improvements to computers and hardware are made. Below is a picture of a Promise PCI expansion card that allows you to connect up to four additional drives to your computer. That's not all! This new expansion card allows sustained data transfer rates up to 66,000,000 bits per second (66Mb/sec).

This newer technology is known as Ultra ATA/66. ATA stands for Advanced Technology Attachment. What does that mean? Well Ultra ATA/66 is the same as Ultra DMA/66. Still don't know what it means? (Don't feel bad I had to look it up).;-) DMA stands for Direct Memory Access. The Ultra ATA/66 (or Ultra DMA/66), can directly access the memory, transferring 66M bits per second. WOW!

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