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The Dawg · 01-16-2008, 12:00 PM

^^ Nice.

I cant figure why they keep changing the names around (ATA,IDE,SATA,PATA). You could buy the wrong thing with all of this jargon.

SATA is the thin red cable style drive.
PATA is the wide (usually grey) ribbon cable drive.

01-16-2008, 12:00 PM
The Dawg Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: State Of Bliss Posts: 2,438	^^ Nice. I cant figure why they keep changing the names around (ATA,IDE,SATA,PATA). You could buy the wrong thing with all of this jargon. SATA is the thin red cable style drive. PATA is the wide (usually grey) ribbon cable drive.