Hard Drives: ATA versus SATA

Posted by ttblogger on 01/06 at 01:59 PM Permalink

The performance of computer systems has been steadily increasing as faster processors, memory, and video cards are continuously being developed.  The one key component that is often neglected when looking at improving the performance of a computer system is the hard drive. Hard drive manufacturers have been constantly evolving the basic hard drive used in modern computer systems for the last 25 years, and the last few years have seen some exciting developments from faster spindle speeds, larger caches, better reliability, and increased data transmission speeds.

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    Posted by Alex Faure  on  01/30  at  04:30 AM

  1. I need to fit a old ATA drive in a new computer so that we can retrieve info off the disk. But the newer computers do not have ATA ribbon cables - what can one do? The only ribbon cables are to the CD/DVD drive - which I assume will not work?
    Thanks

    2. Posted by john Morgan  on  02/14  at  06:50 AM

  2. Great clear in depth answer why dont all geeks speak this way ?

    3. Posted by Jamie  on  02/21  at  11:53 AM

  3. I just got a new 160gb sata harddrive and i tried to instll xp on it .  But windows did not install because i need to update the bios. Can someone help me do this the wright the fist time

    4. Posted by walter ulrich  on  04/27  at  04:27 AM

  4. my motherboard supports both ata and sata, i have a ata installed, can i use both ata and sata ?

    5. Posted by Free landscaping design software  on  08/23  at  10:44 PM

  5. It’s a year that i plan to get new hard disk. Pity to note that it is working worse and worse despite window re-installation. Why can it be so?

    6. Posted by A B M Pathan  on  10/02  at  12:31 PM

  6. My HD is ATA ( 20 GB) that is old one. So I want to upgrade to SATA. How can I do it? L few days before I bought 400 GB, 7200 rpm drive. but can not installed it. Because power and data cab;le r different. So can u u solve the problem.I refund that HD(SATA. My mother board is intel D845 EBT.

    7. Posted by Jay Hart  on  02/18  at  02:46 PM

  7. Great information on ATA vs SATA. Thnaks

    8. Posted by leigh j  on  06/26  at  07:08 PM

  8. Thanks a lot so much for your tips. this article has helped me in my fist year in university and its aiding me again in my second year.

    9. Posted by surendra Paul  on  10/29  at  06:29 AM

  9. A very good information

    10. Posted by sbmailaz  on  04/06  at  11:53 AM

  10. I am trying to figure out if there is a difference in formatting with SATA vs ATA.  I have a dual partition of XP, one is my mail, and one if for backup and play stuff.  But when partition 1 failed and trying to recover it, I had trouble seeing the different paritions in in XP install process.  It saw the entire section, but did not see the individual partitions.

    So I am trying to figure out if I have to set the partitions up differently for my SATA, than I have done for my ATA, as I did them the same way, and my ATA does not behave the same way.

    11. Posted by Alexander  on  11/13  at  04:11 PM

  11. Hey,

    I am trying to help a friend get rid of some viruses but i can’t use Avira because pop ups keep popping up so I took the Hard Drive out and came with an another problem, her drive is a SATA Hard Drive and mine is an ATA hard drive, is there any way that i can make the SATA drive a slave and my ATA a master, or can even do that???

    12. Posted by Orlando Paris  on  02/14  at  12:13 PM

  12. Very helpful information, clear explanations, and the technical vocabulary is so easy to understand,
    thank you for share your computers knowledge with us.

    Orlando Paris
    New York

    13. Posted by john  on  08/22  at  12:23 PM

  13. i bought a sata ti ide adaptor part number cx-sti1001 and there maybe no power to the hard drive am i missing something in the kit

    14. Posted by sly  on  01/12  at  08:53 PM

  14. Why don’t you tell use the real reason we’re fed this new crapware ! It’s CHEAPER to make than IDE and or SCSI. Otherwise we could use SCSI to get Faster transfers of data and a more reliable drive. Just More Smoke And Mirrors. CPU’s haveen’t gone Faster either. Just more Smoke & B.S. too ! Electric can only go so fast and the reache that point back in the 90’s. I am truley tiered of Smoke & B.S. Stop Lieing and tell the truth for once in your Life !!!!

    15. Posted by marty johnson  on  07/31  at  06:19 AM

  15. this could be updated as we are already at 600 mb/s

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