On Jul 26, 2010, at 3:49 PM, nestamicky wrote:

> On 7/26/2010 1:12 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
>> 750 GB PATA drives were available for a while at many retailers. 
> What, can someone please say, are the difference(s) between ATA and PATA?
> 
> 

Standard ATA drives were renamed to PATA when SATA was released. They are both 
members of the ATA family, however the interface is the different aspect. This 
is the way that I understand it anyhow.


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