wats difference between IDE and EIDE cables?

Answer 1

none. same cable.

Answer 2

An early version of the specification, conceived by Western Digital in late 1980s, was commonly known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) due to the drive controller being contained on the drive itself as opposed to a separate controller connected to the motherboard, thus making the interface on the motherboard a host adapter — in contrast to popular belief, not an actual controller. Enhanced IDE (EIDE), an extension to original ATA standard again developed by Western Digital, allowed the support of drives having a storage capacity larger than 528 megabytes (504 mebibytes), up to 8.4 gigabytes. Although these new names originated in branding convention and not as an official standard, the terms IDE and EIDE often appear as if interchangeable with ATA.

Answer 3

An early version of the specification, conceived by Western Digital in late 1980s, was commonly known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) due to the drive controller being contained on the drive itself as opposed to a separate controller connected to the motherboard, thus making the interface on the motherboard a host adapter — in contrast to popular belief, not an actual controller. Enhanced IDE (EIDE), an extension to original ATA standard again developed by Western Digital, allowed the support of drives having a storage capacity larger than 528 megabytes (504 mebibytes), up to 8.4 gigabytes. Although these new names originated in branding convention and not as an official standard, the terms IDE and EIDE often appear as if interchangeable with ATA. This may be attributed to the two technologies being introduced with the same consumable devices, these "new" ATA hard drives. With the introduction of Serial ATA around 2003, conventional ATA was retroactively renamed to Parallel ATA (P-ATA), referring to the method in which data travels over wires in this interface.

Answer 4

Using the IDE connection for internal devices, hard-drives are the main storage device within a PC. Data transfer speeds on IDE hard drives are approximately 133 Mb/s for all drives rated as ATA133, and drives rated at ATA100 providing 100 Mb/s of data. Drives can vary in rotation speed of drive - faster is usually better, and also in cache with 2Mb and 8Mb versions available for nearly all models with the 8Mb cache popular with enthusiasts, gamers and high data use systems.

EIDE (Enhanced IDE) is the same as a IDE however these novelties are commonly known under the names Enhanced IDE
! (EIDE) and Ultra-ATA. EIDE has caused a lot of confusion since it is merely a marketing program from Western Digital which, in turn, builds on a couple of real standards: ATA-2 and ATAPI. Fast-ATA, launched by Seagate and endorsed by Quantum in response to WD's marketing is similar. It builds on ATA-2 only. Ultra-ATA is a widely supported extension of ATA-2 (and ATA-3) adding high speed DMA modes.

Answer 5

SATA interface is better when you are talking of hard drives. BUT when talking of CD or DVD drives, there is no performance difference. SATA interface is becoming popular for optical drives because new motherboards support more SATA ports (4 to 8) than IDE (just 1 port for 2 devices).