What is the difference between a sata hard drive and a ata hard drive?
Rodrick L
2009-03-14 10:07:13 UTC
What is the difference between a sata hard drive and a ata hard drive?
Six answers:
Bon Gart
2009-03-14 10:14:24 UTC
You have two choices (you have three, but we are going to ignore SCSI)
SATA, the faster connection, more modular, has two plastic blades for the connection. SATA means Serial ATA connection.
PATA or as we called it, IDE... this connection differs from 3.5" to 2.5" drives. It consists of two rows of pins. PATA means Parallel ATA connection.
Both, are ATA drives. So, what is the difference between SATA and ATA? Nothing. SATA *is* an ATA drive.
kraay
2016-10-31 16:45:10 UTC
confident, there's a distinction, and that they do no longer seem to be rapidly interchangeable. PATA is Parallel ATA (or in basic terms standard old ATA), which makes use of the extensive ribbon cable. SATA is Serial ATA, which makes use of a lots thinner cable. Their capability connections are diverse too. each gadget those days can use PATA drives. purely the maximum modern structures use SATA. in case you opt to apply SATA drives, and your laptop would not have SATA ports on the motherboard, you will ought to function a SATA controller card on your laptop. you additionally can could get SATA capability adapters besides.
Duncan C
2009-03-14 10:12:31 UTC
ata hard drives have a wire this big |--------| SATA have one this big |-| ATA is the older hard drives, and run slower and louder. SATA can be much faster in terms of information transfer read/write. Which one you may need depends entirely on your motherboard. The wire on the ATA is exactly the same one as the one plugged into your CD drive.
Shae S
2009-03-14 10:12:57 UTC
They are two different ways for a laptop to connect to your computer. Performance wise, there is hardly a difference unless you are using a raid array or something like that.
If you are getting a new hard drive, make sure you get the right type.