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SATA and IDE... What's the diff???

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bobsaget

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I've heard about IDE drives and SATA drives. I don't know what the difference between them is.

Could someone explain this to me?

Is my setup (in sig) capable of SATA interface?






thanks
 
SATA and PATA (Both are IDE I think) are two ways to connect storage devices. SATA uses a small 6 pin connector, and it's a serial interface. PATA on the other hand uses those big 40 pin ribbon cables and transfers data over a parallel interface.

SATA has a maximum theoretical throughput of 150 MB/s right now; PATA maxes out at ATA/133. In practice, both pretty much transfer at the same rates anyways, probably around 50 - 60 MB/s depending on the drive.

I think the a7N8X has SATA connectors on it, so yeah, you could use SATA drives.
 
SATA drives dont require the traditional master/slave jumpers.
 
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