On Feb 23, 2004, at 10:52 PM, Thomas Baker wrote:
Second question: there are two nearly identical Hitachi/IBM ATA 160-gig
drives for sale on the OWC website:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=6502&Item=HIT08K0464 and
http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=6243&Item=HIT13G0254. The
first is described as "parallel ATA" for $116, and the other one is "serial
ATA" for $147. What's the difference between the two drives besides price,
and which one would be best for this Mac?
'Parallel' ATA is the good old IDE drives we've used for years, only no one has ever called it that before. Serial ATA is a new higher-speed standard for ATA; right now only the G5's use them natively, though you can buy controller cards for them for other macs.
Here's the skinny on large drives in Macs: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178>
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