In my old Dell computer I had a 80 GB hard drive that has an "Ultra ATA" logo on it. Manufactured by Seagate. I bought a used MicronPC computer, and it has (I'm guessing) an IDE hard drive on it, nothing on its label indicates that though, only the BIOS appears to say it's an IDE device. It's IDE hard drive was only 10 GB, and my Dell's cooling fan died and so I'm switching hard drives, I put in the new 80 GB, the ports matched just fine, and it turned on, and it's currently formatting the drive properly. It recognizes the drive space: 76413 MB it says for the Unpartitioned Space. But is there a big difference between IDE and ATA drives/their ports/their formatting/etc?
2007-02-11 02:14:15 · 3 answers · asked by ? 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
No.
In common PC terms they both refer to the same thing.
IDE is just a more commonly used name for ATA.
Philip T
2007-02-11 03:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, no. The difference would be ATA/IDE vs. SCSI.
The drive type used most in consumer grade computers is the hardy ATA type drive (commonly called an IDE drive). ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)– a 16-bit parallel interface used for controlling computer drives. Introduced in 1986, it has undergone many evolutions in the last 18+ years, with the latest version being called ATA-7. Wherever an item is referred to as being an ATA device, it is commonly a Parallel ATA device. ATA devices are also commonly called IDE, EIDE, Ultra-ATA, Ultra-DMA, ATAPI, PATA, etc.
2007-02-11 02:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by Katrina W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) was the name of the connection between the motherboard and the hard disk. It soon became a standard by national standards and was called ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)
2007-02-11 02:34:41 · answer #3 · answered by tripppah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋