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28th Mar 2010, 08:58 PM #1OPMember
ata hard drives
hi guys
so i opened my ancient computer to see what type of hard drive i have so i can repleace it but it says on it ata .......now i look for ata hard drives and all i see are sata ones pop up.......are sata drives basically the same as the ata hard drives or are they different
its a old maxtor onepriviet02 Reviewed by priviet02 on . ata hard drives hi guys so i opened my ancient computer to see what type of hard drive i have so i can repleace it but it says on it ata .......now i look for ata hard drives and all i see are sata ones pop up.......are sata drives basically the same as the ata hard drives or are they different its a old maxtor one Rating: 5
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28th Mar 2010, 09:26 PM #2Member
There's sata and pata post a pic it could be ide as you said it was ancient
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29th Mar 2010, 10:42 AM #3OPMember
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/...a5143078_o.jpg
that is basically mine as u see it says ata on it
http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2005/...9-80gb-top.jpg
and on that one u can just see it says sata
so basically all i was wondering is ata like a older version of sata
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29th Mar 2010, 07:38 PM #4MemberWebsite's:
ServeDome.comDifference between sata and pata.
Cables
The SATA cable or Serial ATA cables are only 7 pins wide compared to the IDE Ribbon Cable which is 40 pins. The SATA cables are also longer then the ribbon cables (some up to 1m) which make them more useful in large cases. The PATA or IDE cables are only 45cm long and can connect two hard drives to the motherboard while the SATA cable connects only one hard drive to the motherboard.
Speed
The next step in IDE vs SATA is to work out the data transfer speeds. IDE (PATA) transfers data from the speeds of 5MB/sec up to 133MB/Sec (ATA100/133). SATA however data transfer speeds range from 150MB/sec to SATA II which doubles it to 300MB/sec.
Jumpers
IDE vs SATA in the aspect of jumpers again goes the way of SATA. With the IDE cable you need to always mess around with the jumpers since there may be two hard drives or two CD drives or one of each on the one cable. With SATA there is only the one cable so there are no jumpers to mess around with. If you are new to computers then a SATA hard drive will be easier to install.
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29th Mar 2010, 07:40 PM #5Member
priviet i wanted to know the connector not what it says
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29th Mar 2010, 09:23 PM #6Respected Member
Yours are ata now known as pata. You will need a sata io card if you want any other than ata/pata.
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30th Mar 2010, 12:30 PM #7OPMember
ok cheers guys for all ur help
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