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My motheboard model's page on Intel says it has "Two Serial ATA IDE interfaces". Is this SATA? I want to know so i can know my hard drive upgrade options...

2006-12-05 00:29:07 · 6 answers · asked by MartayPartay101 2 in Computers & Internet Hardware Desktops

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What they are telling you is that you have 2 SATA and 2 IDE interfaces. You can hook up to 6 drives, SATAs use one connection each, and the IDEs can piggy back with 2 drives to each IDE connection. I would reserve 1 IDE connection for 2 optical drives. Yes, you can run a combination of SATA and IDE hard drives together. Tricky, but it can be done.

2006-12-05 05:12:53 · answer #1 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0 0

The differences between IDE and SATA will be interface cards. The old IDE is a large grey cable, whereas the SATA interface looks more like the hard drive power cable.

2006-12-05 00:58:08 · answer #2 · answered by Simphiwe M 2 · 0 0

There is a difference b/w Serial (SATA) and IDE. One easy way to distinguish is the cables. PATA or IDE interfaces tend to use the ribbon which tend to consume more room whereas a Serial cable is much thinner and smaller in size. Not always true but definitely one way to tell. View the link below for more answers and diagrams relating to SATA.

2006-12-05 00:39:57 · answer #3 · answered by HJ 2 · 0 0

SATA stands for Serial ATA, which is what you specifications say.

IDE, or PATA (Parallel ATA) is specified differently.

You have SATA interface.

2006-12-05 04:16:45 · answer #4 · answered by wraymac 3 · 1 0

It's very simple.Just check the data cable which connects the motherboard to your CD-ROM/RW or DVD-ROM/RW.It's ribbon like.If the same cable can fit into the data port of your current HDD,its not SATA.
Check out the following link.The 4 small,greyish ports to the right of number 88 are SATA.And the two large,dark pink,vertical ports to the left of the number are parallel ATA.It's written ocer there.Check out carefully and compait with the ports on your motherboard.

2006-12-05 01:29:17 · answer #5 · answered by cool_head 2 · 0 0

SATA interface

2006-12-05 00:30:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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