On Jul 26, 2010, at 4:49 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?
Very overly simplified:
ATA drives in the beginning were all Parallel ATA. There were no
other options so the parallel was not stated most of the time.
Parallel means 8 data lines working in unison.
Serial ATA (SATA) drives came on the market and there needed to be a
way to distinguish between original ATA drives and the new spec. So
they added the originally implied P(arallel) to the beginning of ATA.
Serial is the 8 data bits going one after the other.
HTH,
Len
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