In the interest of not having to reinstall everything, I would like to use the Windows XP image I made after building my new PC on a new, faster SATA/300 drive I just purchased. As noted in the ...

How to Transfer Programs From a PATA to a SATA Drive. Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, drives have virtually the same physical characteristics and platter speeds.

A PATA drive requires 39 or 40 holes in the data cable, and four pins on the power connection. A SATA drive requires two slot-type connectors, with seven contacts on the data connector and 15 ...

By and large, the Raspberry Pi is a computer that eschews legacy interfaces. Primarily relying on SD cards for storage and USB ports for further expansion, magnetic hard drives are a rare sight. Ho… ...

The only thing keeping PATA drives going is the slight cost benefit, a couple of dollars per drive, compared with SATA, Clark said. “PATA is still used for cost-sensitive platforms,” ...

I wish motherboard manufacturers wouldn't consign parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives and the IDE ports they require to the dustbin of history just yet. Give me my IDE port back now | ZDNET X ...

The hard-drive manufacturer’s engineers stopped work on new projects late last year, he noted. PATA technology, developed more than 20 years ago, has been used in desktop PCs for more than 15 years.

Now that Seagate has announced plans to phase out PATA drives in favor of the faster SATA technology, other hard drive manufacturers will follow suit and PATA's days are numbered. From a personal ...

Although SATA drives are not physically compatible with PATA devices, they support the same standards and as such they can communicate either through software (in your operating system) or with an ...

I'm looking for a strategy to get my 2x160GB Seagate SATA RAID1 boot drives to a new 1x250GB SATA drive (no RAID). From what I can find, it appears that breaking the mirror (resetting the RAID ...

Google studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 and 400GB storage and 5400 to 7200rpm, and while unfortunately they didn't call out specific brands or models that had high ...

The majority of early SATA hard drives are quite simply PATA drives featuring a bridge to convert them to SATA connectivity. ... NCQ is shown below, the image courtesy of www.nvidia.com.