if someone has a picture please post it.
2006-08-27 14:41:38 · 4 answers · asked by shawn_2kool 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
ATA stands for At Attachment
There are 2 type of hard drives: parallel ATA and serial ATA.
Serial ATA is the standard for PCs now.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/CDE/_SATPAT.JPG
See the picture to compare the 2.
2006-08-27 14:48:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ATA is a specifications for IDE hard drives. They are named ATA-1, 2, 3.... etc depending on mostly the speed. They are all IDE drives.
It looks like any IDE based hard drives.
2006-08-27 14:47:28 · answer #2 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here are a couple I found online:
A SCSI hard drive looks like an ATA hard drive, it just uses different connectors.
2006-08-27 14:49:10 · answer #3 · answered by Bryan A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ATA uses the IDE cable
SATA uses the SATA cable(red thin one)
2006-08-27 23:32:27 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋