PATA? SATA? ATA? what is the interface difference?[views:2664][posts:17]______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:03pm - the_reverend ""] I ordered a 500GB drive for my computer upstairs to re-do it. it was suppose to be a SATA drive, but it came as a PATA/100. will that work with either SATA or ATA (IDE)? |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:04pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.newegg.com/Product/CategoryIntelligenceArticle.aspx?articleId=209 so PATA is the same as ATA? |
| _________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:05pm - sxealex ""] err ide? scsi? huh? |
| _________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:05pm - sxealex ""] floppy disk? |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:07pm - the_reverend ""] I need to get a new laptop hard drive too... what is the largest ATA6 drive? |
| _________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:07pm - sxealex ""] it says pata is ide? or am i crazy. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:08pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136159 I guess they make 250GB versions... hm... |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:10pm - the_reverend ""] I guess PATA/100 is IDE. I didn't know that. guess the S/P is the way the data is accessed... but Parallel is faster than Serial in theory, but not in practice I guess. |
| _________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:15pm - sxealex ""] so are you gonna return it? |
| ____________________________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:18pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] yup, PATA, ATA/100/133, & IDE = all the same. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:20pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] it's not common to see IDE in a desktop now the same way it's not common to see SCSI in a server. Everything's SATA and SAS now. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:25pm - the_reverend ""] have you seen a sata lappy drive? it's the same exact interface as a large sata drive. I want to try hooking up a 1tb desktop drive to a lappy now. |
| _________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:29pm - sxealex ""] what are you gonna duct tape it to the bottom? |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:31pm - the_reverend ""] you don't remember like 5 years ago when desknotes were all the rage? |
| ____________________________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:34pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] the_reverend said:have you seen a sata lappy drive? it's the same exact interface as a large sata drive. I want to try hooking up a 1tb desktop drive to a lappy now. The crazy thing is that most 1 or 2U pizzabox rack servers you buy now will have 2.5" SAS drives in them. crazyness! SAS interfaces will also take SATA drives too though, which is cool. SATA interfaces will not take SAS though. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:41pm - the_reverend ""] that last bit is not too cool |
| _________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:42pm - sxealex ""] for you. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 25,2007 2:46pm - the_reverend ""] I don't have any servers that I deal with hardwarewise. servers are using more and more laptop parts at my work. |