Windows Server 2016 Administration Fundamentals

Serial bus technologies (4.1.7)

For data transmission, parallel and serial transmission is used. In parallel transmissions, a string of eight bits is usually transmitted that is equal to one byte at a time. In contrast, in serial transmissions, only one bit is usually transmitted at a given time. Even though more bits are transmitted through parallel transmission, serial transmission is most widely used in storage technologies. That is because disks tend to handle only one bit at a given time, meaning that the disk's read-and-write head reads and writes one bit within the given time. Thus, the serial method of transmission has been proven to be more pragmatic by eliminating overhead processing, signal skewing, and crosstalk. That said, today's ...