How do you pronounce SATA?

[Mixolydian]

rofl, i would also say PATA like pat uh

what can i say, im special. :awe:

 

[mnewsham]

I say Serial a-tee-a

-shrug-

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I say Serial a-tee-a

-shrug-

its cereal aye tee aye

 

[Mixolydian]

its cereal aye tee aye

cereal...i just had a bowl of lucky charms!

 

[tfinch2]

recently someone around me was saying "saytah" alot.. he's no longer around.

WTF is this supposed to imply?

 

[mnewsham]

its cereal aye tee aye

"aye" is pronounced /ī/ (eye)

as in aye aye captain.

 

[SKORPI0]

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. :hmm:

 

[brianmanahan]

sahhhh-tahhhh

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

serial ata

if the we follow suit then it would be above = serial ATA, not Sata. Did we ever pronounce IDE? wtf! it fucking enrages me every-time i hear one of the idiot sales people at Micro Center pronounce it Sata

do we pronounce CPU, no we say see p u - no nun intended, haha

EDIT: ever watch a BBB by Dr Steven Brule?

 

[brianmanahan]

honestly they should just call em ATA now, given that parallel is dead

 

[brianmanahan]

it f****g enrages me every-time i hear one of the idiot sales people at Micro Center pronounce it Sata

you should probably see a psychiatrist about that

 

[coldmeat]

serial ay-tee-ay, but I say it maybe once or twice a year.

 

[BoomerD]

Satin, Santa, SATA. Sahhh-tuhhhh

this

 

[Brigandier]

Sat-uh.

 

[etrigan420]

...do we pronounce CPU, no we say see p u - no nun intended, haha...

Do you have an Intel or an Ahm'd kuh-pew?

I'm still bitter about the whole ASUS thing...

"ZOOS" MY ASS!!!

 

[Mixolydian]

Do you have an Intel or an Ahm'd kuh-pew?

I'm still bitter about the whole ASUS thing...

"ZOOS" MY ASS!!!

Ay-SUSS or Ay-SOOS? ive heard its officially pronounced Ay-SOOS so thats what i say

 

[sandorski]

sah tah

 

[chalmers]

Say-ta. Although I've definitely said it the other way too.

 

[Engineer]

Say-ta.

 

[BoomerD]

Do you pronounce "NASA" as Nay-Sa?

 

[CZroe]

OP FAIL.

Where is the S-A-T-A option?

I hope to God you Sat-Uh/Say-Tuh people didn't try to pronounce IDE/UDMA/UATA before it.

 

[CZroe]

ah yes, scsi (i hated when people who didnt know wtf they were alking about said "es see es eye"

Despite my post above, I hated when people who did know acted like it was some point of distinguishment with people who, for good reason, might not.

Around the year 2000, an IT guy at a local NCR warehouse/office building was checking out a piece of equipment at the front desk being manned by my 19 year old twin brother (a security guard at the time). The IT guy described it as a "Scuzzy drive" and then expressed shock when my brother wrote down "SCSI drive" on the equipment form, as if no new teenaged security guard would ever know that. I still wonder why the guy didn't specify if he thought he would need to and then waited/watched. Did he expect to be amused or to assert his understanding by correcting him only to be surprised that he lost the opportunity?

We both had already had our A+ certifications and were actively enrolled in our college CIS classes.

 

[Mixolydian]

OP FAIL.

Where is the S-A-T-A option?

it was ok when it was just three letters (I-D-E/A-T-A) but four is too many to be saying each letter individually. needs a quick catchy term.

 

[Aikouka]

OP FAIL.

Where is the S-A-T-A option?

I hope to God you Sat-Uh/Say-Tuh people didn't try to pronounce IDE/UDMA/UATA before it.

Ever say the word SCUBA? Oh, that's right... SCUBA is an acronym that stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. People pronounce (some) acronyms... get flippin' used to it.

 

[CZroe]

Ever say the word SCUBA? Oh, that's right... SCUBA is an acronym that stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. People pronounce (some) acronyms... get flippin' used to it.

*woosh*

No freakin' duh. I have no problem with people saying Say-Tuh or Sat-Uh. I'm saying that to not even consider that people might say each letter means you must not have been around then or you were trying to pronounce something that should not have been pronounced all along. Either way: The question makes ignorant assumptions.

I had a class where the textbook actually said you were supposed to pronounce all technology initializations. I chuckled as the instructor stumbled over EISA, PS2, VLB, AGP, PCI, PCMCIA, RDRAM, DDR SDRAM, etc. I always accepted GUI, SCSI, COM, VESA, SQL, etc. Even so, when I saw a 25-year PC tech shop veteran confusing customers by cluelessly using "Your-El" to mean "URL," I could only shake my head. How has he not realized in all that time that he was confusing people by being almost the only person any of us have ever heard saying that and doing so consistently and without explanation? Sure, I figured out what he meant in context because I knew what he was talking about, but the people he was "helping" would get hung up on that and couldn't follow anything else he was saying. The expressions on their faces were extremely telling. Some would even out-right say "what? huh?" and I'd hear him just repeat and say "Your-El" again without anything to clarify. I felt like smacking my forehead.