How do you pronounce SATA?

[dighn]

It's Serial A-T-A

Before SATA you never heard anybody calling ATA atta, or IDE idie.

serial aye tee aye is 6 syllables. people are lazy.

 

[MotionMan]

It's Serial A-T-A

Before SATA you never heard anybody calling ATA atta, or IDE idie.

This is your logic on the subject, really?

LOL.

MotionMan

 

[Raduque]

or serial ay-tee-ay

Like dis

 

[Aikouka]

I have never seen "Btry" before, but "battery" is the first thing that came to mind

I'm just glad that "Bn" (batallion) didn't come up too! :$

most of the letters in KANÆVEJFOSKI are acronyms (of sorts, they stand for a sentence), how many bonus points is that worth?

I think the meme "it's over 9000!" fits in adequately here.

It's NOT an "actual word," genius. I guess I need to say this again

Regardless of whether abbreviations are considered shortened forms of existing words, they are considered words unto themselves, and an acronym is an abbreviation. Look at it this way, you're telling me that saying S-C-U-B-A is an acceptable pronunciation for SCUBA. I may not be an English major, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

I'm going to move this next quoted portion up a little bit as I think the response fits better here...

The "high horse" attitude is the one expressed by you and the IT guy who didn't think my brother knew how to spell "Scuzzy" while reveling in just how limited your understanding/interpretation is.

I think you're misunderstanding my intent in arguing with you over this. I couldn't care less if you say S-A-T-A or say-tuh or sat-uh. Regardless of which one that you use, I know what you mean. I'm simply being the pimply-faced nerd that is arguing that semantically spelling out an acronym isn't the same as pronouncing it which requires a phonetic pronunciation.

(Oh, and for the record, I don't really have a pimple-ridden face. )

It's clear now that *woosh* was the most appropriate thing I could say. Once again, I'm saying that people who think that we might only say Say-Tuh or Sat-Uh must be ignorant of ATA, UATA, etc before it. It's an observation of how silly it is to assume that we must pronounce it and not saying that people who pronounce it are wrong to do so. I'm talking about EXPANDING the OP's understanding, who previously thought that it must be one of only two ways while ignoring a third, more obvious, way.

Honestly, I'm not sure who would take your original statement to mean this... especially with the emoticon used. That thing tends to exude an "air of douchiness" whenever I see it... that bastard emoticon!

FWIW, I interchangeably use Say-Tuh and S-A-T-A but prefer S-A-T-A. I also prefer IDE instead of the BACKronym "PATA."

I actually tend to use IDE as well instead of PATA. I think it's because I always called the connectors "IDE ports", and it seemed natural to refer to the connecting drives in the same manner.

EDIT:

It's Serial A-T-A

Before SATA you never heard anybody calling ATA atta, or IDE idie.

I think people just naturally want to pronounce an acronym when it's consonant + vowel + consonant + vowel. If I saw a Wawa sign, I would want to say Wah-wah vs. spelling it out. Although, I would probably say ah-wah if it was AWA... just because that sounds funny! :biggrin:

 

[rh71]

Ess-ay-tee-ay

that

 

[DrPizza]

Serial ay tee ay
or
ess ay tee ay

 

[Oyeve]

I say hard drive cable.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Since I pronounce PATA "paw-tah", SATA comes out "saw-tah." I think that is a soft "a."? SATA like SATAN? NO!


edit:come to think of it, I don't use those terms at all, just IDE or Serial.

 

[dighn]

I say hard drive cable.

ok guys grab the torches and pitch forks...

 

[Oyeve]

ok guys grab the torches and pitch forks...

Hell, I still have some old MFM/RLL cables.

 

[Mixolydian]

TBH I didn't expect this topic to be so heated. :hmm:

 

[AdamK47]

I say hard drive cable.

Hard drive connector thingy.

 

[cronos]

poal not found

 

[AdamK47]

I still use pattah cables for idie drives in my older PCs.

 

[Mixolydian]

poal not found

Who said it was a poll? :hmm:

 

[crownjules]

I pronounce it like "sat-uh". Just how it jumped out at me when I first saw it.

 

[cronos]

Who said it was a poll? :hmm:

It's a reasonable expectation based on the thread title!

 

[CZroe]

Se-gah!

...does what Ninten-don't.

Regardless of whether abbreviations are considered shortened forms of existing words, they are considered words unto themselves, and an acronym is an abbreviation. Look at it this way, you're telling me that saying S-C-U-B-A is an acceptable pronunciation for SCUBA. I may not be an English major, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

I think you're misunderstanding my intent in arguing with you over this. I couldn't care less if you say S-A-T-A or say-tuh or sat-uh. Regardless of which one that you use, I know what you mean. I'm simply being the pimply-faced nerd that is arguing that semantically spelling out an acronym isn't the same as pronouncing it which requires a phonetic pronunciation.

(Oh, and for the record, I don't really have a pimple-ridden face. )

Honestly, I'm not sure who would take your original statement to mean this... especially with the emoticon used. That thing tends to exude an "air of douchiness" whenever I see it... that bastard emoticon!

Yeah, but that's exactly how you make a sarcastic point with smileys. I really wish more forums had the Colbert one.

I actually tend to use IDE as well instead of PATA. I think it's because I always called the connectors "IDE ports", and it seemed natural to refer to the connecting drives in the same manner.

Well, IDE was more than the connector. It was the drive interface, so it was always more appropriate to call it IDE than ATA (the communication protocol). It meant Integrated Device Electronics which also meant that you were no longer using an external host controller, like SCSI. When they transitioned to a new serial interface for pretty much the same protocol, they named them collectively. We still had weird stuff like SATA WD Raptor drives using legacy ATA commands like TCQ over SATA before SATA's own NCQ was on the market, but it did simplify things a bit... except for all the new IDE drives needlessly adding a new designation: PATA. I've actually seen techs at Fry's say "What's that?" when asked for an IDE drive, so we officially have too many designations for the previous generation and IDE is getting pushed out. PATA didn't simplify anything and only made more potential problems: "But my Computer Novice Magazine told me to buy an IDE drive to upgrade my older system, Mr. Salesman. Are you sure you don't have anything like that?"

EDIT:
I think people just naturally want to pronounce an acronym when it's consonant + vowel + consonant + vowel. If I saw a Wawa sign, I would want to say Wah-wah vs. spelling it out. Although, I would probably say ah-wah if it was AWA... just because that sounds funny! :biggrin:

This is also why I say it like a word sometimes. I also make it a habit to deliberately mispronounce such things all the time to poke fun at all the new acro-words we use today.

 

[Rubycon]

not as good as scuzzy! (scsi)

Parallel SCSI is obsolete, been replaced with SAS.

Some do say serial attached scuzzy, however.

Remember back in the day when you had sound cards that had three different interfaces for various CD roms? :biggrin: I think my Gravis Ultrasound Max (GUS) had that. Creative had the SB16 SCSI that had a 50 pin SCSI-2 adapter that could be used for SCSI CD roms. NEC and Plextor (3X and Quad) with caddies! That plextor had a massive 1MB buffer which was a lot considering the average 486 MPC had just 4MB ram...

Now controllers can have 4GB RAM or more.

 

[Avalon]

Se-gah!

My first thoughts!

 

[Cattlegod]

In my head sah tuh
Out loud S-A-T-A

 

[sdifox]

suh-tuh

 

[sdifox]

Parallel SCSI is obsolete, been replaced with SAS.

Some do say serial attached scuzzy, however.

Remember back in the day when you had sound cards that had three different interfaces for various CD roms? :biggrin: I think my Gravis Ultrasound Max (GUS) had that. Creative had the SB16 SCSI that had a 50 pin SCSI-2 adapter that could be used for SCSI CD roms. NEC and Plextor (3X and Quad) with caddies! That plextor had a massive 1MB buffer which was a lot considering the average 486 MPC had just 4MB ram...

Now controllers can have 4GB RAM or more.

I think I just through away my NEC SCSI CD ROM drive with caddy. Had a sealed brand new caddy too.

 

[phucheneh]

I actually tend to use IDE as well instead of PATA. I think it's because I always called the connectors "IDE ports", and it seemed natural to refer to the connecting drives in the same manner.

EDIT:


I think people just naturally want to pronounce an acronym when it's consonant + vowel + consonant + vowel. If I saw a Wawa sign, I would want to say Wah-wah vs. spelling it out. Although, I would probably say ah-wah if it was AWA... just because that sounds funny! :biggrin:

One thing to note here is that there are pure acronyms, like SCUBA and SEAL (as in 'Navy') that were conceived as words from their beginning. The ability to pronounce it as a word actually plays into what letters are even used to create the acronym.

Other things, like, assumably, 'SATA,' are just blunt initialisms. 'ATA' already existed and was not pronounced. Serial was the key word. 'SATA' was natural. The thought of pronouncing it was probably not; but it eventually found favor because, well, it simply is better. It's faster (when you're spitting out technical jargon, yeah, the syllables are worth saving when you can) and is not really confused (when 'properly' pronounced saytuh...) with any other term. In comparison, 'eyed' (IDE) or 'attuh/aytuh' (ATA) would just sound seem retardedly awkward.

 

[Rubycon]

I think I just through away my NEC SCSI CD ROM drive with caddy. Had a sealed brand new caddy too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGKkmpbhv9k