i have PATA type of pc. i wanna buy HP external harddrive. i wanna know whether external drives are compatible to PATA & SATA both?
2007-07-08 07:33:43 · 5 answers · asked by tom_under_scanner 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Ext HDD will connect either on USB or FireWire
The only consideration for Pata or Sata is if you buy empty caddy, you need to know which type of drive goes into it.
2007-07-08 07:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by stu_the_kilted_scot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
External drives are independent to the drive you have connected internally on your system. The external unit can connect directly to your computer with USB2.0, IEEE 1394 Firewire, or SATA. PATA is something I've never seen external except by putting that interface into an external hard drive case. Without knowing your full system specifications, I have no idea what external interfaces you have. See which one of the three external interfaces I mentioned is on your system (definitely won't be PATA) and get the external hard drive that supports it.
2007-07-08 07:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jago 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not particularly count. exterior drives will use the USB interface, so your pc does not truly care whether the rigidity interior the enclosure is SATA or PATA. A measurement 2400 is sufficiently previous that the indoors drives will use PATA (aka IDE) ribbon cable connectors while you're thinking changing the indoors rigidity.
2016-10-20 07:30:25 · answer #3 · answered by coriolan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since external drives do NOT connect to internal buses (they go outside, via USB2 or Firewire ports), and both PATA and SATA are internal buses, the answer to your question is "yes".
2007-07-08 08:09:40 · answer #4 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They should be, as far as I know.
2007-07-08 07:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by Ash 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋