When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

A WD 320GB PATA hard drive in one of those adapters, in this laptop, hits it up at around 66 MB/s in HDDscan (and this is remarkably consistent from one end of the drive to the other). The mSATA ...

I have to admit, I'm somewhat surprised that SATA has not really penetrated laptop devices all that much as of yet. I've been toying around with a potential case design in my head - nothing on ...

Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, ... Insert a blank CD or DVD disc into the optical drive of the computer. If an AutoPlay window opens, close it.

Todd Swank, director of marketing at Northern Computer Technologies, a system builder in Burnsville, Minn., said most but not all VAR customers are ordering more SATA drives than PATA because ...

PATA technology, developed more than 20 years ago, has been used in desktop PCs for more than 15 years. It is less widely used in notebook computers, consumer electronics devices and servers.

Even if your computer is 35 years old, you can remove its PATA or SATA HDD or SSD drive and connect it to your current one. No internet connection is required.

PATA stands for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment and is a bus interface standard for connecting hard drives into a computer system. However, it has been completely replaced by SATA as SATA ...