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Newb question: What is PATA?

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Kuo

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Hey,

Been trying to google this (and I'm still trying) but was just hoping to get a summary of what I'm trying to find out while I keep looking...

What exactly is PATA and more specifically, what can it run on?

It seems like it's been around for a while but I never saw mention of it until I just noticed a 300 gig HD with 16 MB cache and using ATA/133. Previously I had thought the largest affordable cache using ATA was just 8 MB (Raptors were higher priced).

But the meat of my question is: Can I use a PATA drive on my old computer w/ only old-school ATA/133 capabilities? or is it a different standard/controller like SATA?
 
Parrellel ATA = Old IDE Interface, they use it now to differensiate SAS, SATA, and Old IDE Interface
 
oh haha, and here i thought it was a new thing

that would explain why the stuff i was reading was confusing the hell outa me... :)
 
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