PATA (Parallel ATA) is better known as IDE. IDE/PATA is the predecessor to SATA in terms of storage device controllers.
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- hard-drive Parent tag for all hard-drive bus technologies
- sata Sister tag for another PC hard-drive technology
Questions tagged [pata]
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Why should I choose (or not) AHCI over IDE in my PC's BIOS settings?
I've noticed in the BIOS settings of the newer PCs I own that I can configure the drive controller work either in AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode, or else in IDE mode.
I'm suspecting that AHCI "performs" better, but I really don't…
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What's the difference between ATA, PATA, and IDE?
If I am not mistaken these names all referrer to the same technology. Are there any differences between them? If not, why does this technology go by so many different names?
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How can I use an old PATA hard disk drive on my newer SATA-only computer?
I've got some old hard drives I'd like to connect to my new computer to quickly transfer gigs and gigs of data from the old drives to my nice large new drives. The old drives are PATA/IDE/ATA and the new computer's motherboard only supports SATA…
Zack Peterson
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How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows?
Can I enable AHCI after installing Windows 7 in a SATA drive that was on IDE mode?
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Need clarification on what IDE hard drive size—2.5 inch versus 3.5 inch—actually means
I have some older IDE (parallel ATA) hard drives I want to check for files before tossing them out. I have found SATA/IDE to USB Adapters to use, but they specify 2.5" and 3.5" hard drive connections. My drives are all 4" X 5 3/4".
My question is,…
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What was this DIG (or may be D G ) Interface on IDE (PATA) CD Writer?
I hope this question is in scope for this site.
While I was just about to throw away my very old internal CD Writer (PATA Interface) in E-Waste, I saw two pins on its extreme left back panel interface mentioning DIG ( D G being Pinouts) on it.
See…
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Is ATA the same as IDE/PATA or SATA?
I was taking a look at a HDD and I found a document (from Toshiba, link: 2.5-Inch SATA HDD mq01abdxxx) that says:
Drive interface: Serial ATA, Revision 2.6 / ATA-8
I know that SATA uses SATA interface and ATA uses IDE interface. Then: Why is it…
learnprogramming
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What do the "ATA/IDE Configuration" options in ASUS motherboard BIOS?
It appears that I'm not the only one with such question, but Googling revealed nothing.
For many contemporary ASUS (maybe other manufacturers too?) motherboards there is a setting in BIOS called "ATA/IDE Configuration", which has three options -…
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Identify if optical drive in my laptop is SATA or PATA in Windows 7
I never thought this will be soo difficult but without opening up my laptop how do I identify if the dvd drive in my laptop is SATA or not.
And incase its SATA then is it SATA - II?
I am ok with installing 3rd party utilities to find this out.
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Why is HDD in a DVD-ROM slot slower on Lenovo 3000 laptop?
So I'm about to upgrade my laptop (Lenovo 3000 N100, 0768-49G), got my SATA HDD caddy for the DVD-ROM slot, but whenever I'm putting an HDD or SSD into it, the read speed falls to only 30 MByte/s, whereas the same drive put into the regular HDD slot…
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Do I get any performance boost with an IDE to SATA adapter?
I picked up a barebones PC kit the other day so that I could get a speed boost and still use my old hard drives/DVD drives, etc.
I currently have two IDE drives and unfortunately the new motherboard only has 1 IDE head to plug into (and I fear I…
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What type of 2.5" drive is this, is it ide?
Trying find out what type of drive I have in my laptop.
Is just died and I'm keen to find out what sort it is ?
Heres a photo...
Jules
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IDE/PATA high-speed hard drive dock
I frequently need to access bare drives for backups and need a quick, high-speed way to deal with them.
There are a multitude of SATA hard drive docks (for example), but I have a lot of IDE/PATA (hereafter "IDE") drives that I would like to be able…
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5 x 3GB drives and 4 x 1500GB drive best raid setup?
I am building a file server my plan is the have the Operating system on one raid partition and the data storage on another partition.
I currently have 5 x 3GB IDE drives that i would like to put the operating system on theses drives are old but…
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Can a USB/IDE/SATA adapter be flaky?
I use USB/IDE/SATA converters a lot and on the two that I have now, I sometimes get errors copying files to drives.
It only happens when I'm copying big files to the drive (big can mean as little as 100MB, I think it happens more often with bigger…
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