Question
At the rear of my Amstrad Sky+ HD box is a port labelled SATA. What is this for?
Submitted online by Alan Hirst
The Mysterious SATA port on a Sky box
Our Answer
At the moment, nothing.
In the computer world, SATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, and it’s an interface used for connecting to a hard drive.
Newer Sky+ HD boxes come with a SATA port, which you’d think would allow you to connect an external hard drive, either to add more space, or to let you copy recordings. Sadly not. The SATA port is disabled, and Sky’s comment on the subject is that this port is “reserved for future use”. The USB port on a Sky+ HD box is also “Reserved for Future Use”. So no joy there.
Sky may decide to support these two ports at some point in the future, but at the time of writing, both are non-functional, but may one day be enabled via an over-the-air software update.
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