What are the basics of these...
Can someone give me a visual explanation/
what they do...
thanks.
2007-07-16 18:22:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
SCSI, SATA (not SETA), and IDE (a.k.a. EIDE, ATA) are interfaces for hard drives and optical drives (CD, DVD, etc.) to the computer. Plugs are a bit different, data protocol are a bit different, and so on. What exactly do you need to know?
SCSI is also used to connect some scanners.
2007-07-16 21:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will answer one of those. SCSI is Small Computer Serial Interface. It is a type of connection that was used to connect peripheral devices such as scanners and external hard drives to Macintosh computers. I think the last Mac to use SCSI was the beige G3. All Macs starting with the Blue & White G3 have had both firewire and USB (Universal Serial Bus). Firewire is faster than USB and the external devices that use it are usually slightly more expensive.
Another note on SCSI. It is possible to get an SCSI card to put in a newer Mac. But it doesn't always work with all external devices. At this point you can pretty much consider SCSI to be obsolete.
2007-07-16 18:38:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋