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 just purchased a 500 GB Sata Seagate and want to transfer over my old Pata drives to it but for some reason the Sata drive doesn't show up either in the Bios or my computer. When I installed it ...

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 ...

I have windows vista running on this system which has no problem with correctly designating drives in proper driv letter order, however the SATA drive which bears the operating system is only ...

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.

Hot on the heels of SanDisk, Intel has now trotted out some SSD drives of its own that it says are specifically designed for "value mobile and desktop systems such as netbooks and nettops." ...

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.

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… ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...