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How much is a Sata laptop hard drive?
A Sata laptop hard drives can cost anywhere from below one hundred dollars to over three hundred dollars, depending on the amount of hard drive one needs.
What might the purpose be for a sata?
SATA (Serial ATA) is a type of interface. It's a format of cable and socket that connects hard drives and optical drives to the motherboard. The main purpose of SATA was to provide a faster interface to hard drives to replace the aging ATA interface. It also uses much thinner cables which help with cable routing and airflow. Pretty much every new consumer hard drive uses some form of SATA to connect to the motherboard.
Does a hard drive with more memory last longer?
Not necessarily. As a matter of fact, nowadays you can get what are called Solid State Hard Drives, which are quite different from the old school IDE hard drives and the current standard SATA hard drives. I don't know much about Solid State Hard Disk Drives but it is my understanding that they tend to last a lot longer than both IDE and SATA. A 60 GB Solid State hard drive will cost about the same as a 500 GB SATA drive, apparently because they last longer and are better all around.
How much do sata cables usually cost to buy?
Sata cables usually cost around 5$ to buy, depending on it's length and the quality. Sata cables are available at various websites such as Amazon and Tomshardware.
Where can cheap Sata hard drives be found?
Sata Hard drives can be found cheaply in a range of on-line stores, with Amazon offering them at $121.85 with free shipping included. And over at bestbuy they offer them at a much lesser price of $49.99 also including shipping, and comparisons too.
Why are companies switching to SATA hard drives?
SATA data transfer is much quicker and reliable for large files and streaming. SATA is approximately 8 x faster than USB 2.0 transfer rates. SATA provides a reliable connection for the hard drive or standard state drive to the main computer/laptop hardware.
What are three advantages to serial ATA installation?
In asking this I can safely assume that you have at least a rudimentary understanding of the workings of a computer. Serial ATA (more commonly referred to as SATA, or the newer SATA2 standard) is a new standard connection for computer storage devices such as hard drives and DVD drives, that replaces the older IDE system of connection. SATA holds a few advantages over IDE, the first and most important of which is speed. SATA devices have a faster data transfer rate than IDE had. SATA 2 is twice as fast as SATA. SATA devices use a new connection method. Gone are the old IDE Ribbon cables, and molex plugs, SATA now has some much thinner and smaller data and power cables. Because the plugs are physically a lot smaller, it means more sockets for SATA data points can be fitted onto a motherboard. Because the cabling is much simpler going straight from the motherboard to the drive, the need to set individual drives to be slave or master drive has gone, which means no more messing with small fiddly jumpers! One of the great benefits is that SATA devices ate "hot swappable", which means even if a drive is powered up, it can still be unplugged and removed, and you can plug SATA drives into powered up systems with no adverse effects. This is great if you run multiple drives in an array or raid. Finally the cost is usually cheaper than a comparable IDE device these days.
What is a Good computer CD drive?
There are two types of cd/dvd drive available. Sata and Pata. Sata uses a small sata cable whereas pata uses an older ribbon style IDE cable. Sata is the best of these two but not all computer support sata, in those cases ide will do. As far as brand goes there is not much difference but the Pioneer, LG and Liteon drives tend to be reliable.
What is the most common cable used today for connecting a hard drive to the motherboard?
There are different interfaces of which hard drives can be connected to the motherboard of computers. ATA- More commonly ATA-133, the newest version not compatible with ATA-100(phased out) Typically this setup uses a Ribbon cable, however there are "Round" cables that have been made to reduce the turbulence and promote airflow inside the cases. These drives typically do not spin faster than 7,200 RPMS. SATA- Serial ATA, uses a thin small cable, typically red. This is the first version, and finding hardware that SATA I is difficult. these drives typicall do not spin faster than 7,200 RPMS SATA II - AKA SATA 3.0 GB, Uses an identical cable, but transfers data much more quickly. Most hard drives and computer accessories that use SATA are SATA II. Typically SATA II is backwards compatible with SATA I. These drives are currently capable of spinning to a maximum of 10,000 RPMS SATA III - AKA SATA 6GB/s, use a similar cable but transfers data at twice the rate of SATA II and four times the rate of SATA (first version). SATA III is also backwards compatible. In order to take full advantage of the SATA III technology it is necessary to have a SATA III motherboard, cable and HDD. SCSI- Pronounced "SKUZZY" a high speed interface typically only used on High end workstations and servers. Has high bandwidth and uses ribbon cables similar in look to ATA, but has more pins and a different connector. Older versions for SCSI required "terminators" on the empty connectors however they are becomming less prevalent and are typically not used on the current SCSI 320 Format. These drives are typically the most expensive and rotate the fastest typically 15,000 RPM's
Can a PC card slot contain a hard disk drive?
Depending on your BIOS and operating system, you may be able to use a hard drive in a card slot. There are new SSD hard drives made for plugging into a PCI-Express socket rather than a SATA socket, and they are much faster than SATA drives. So if your exact configuration is compatible and you can afford such a solution, you would likely be pleased.
How much does a terabyte cost?
Terabyte hard drives cost between $140-$200 dollars.
How much faster is Sata II than Sata?
The Sata II is has a transfer speed that is two times as fast as the original Sata. The Sata has a communication speed of 1.5 Gbit/s while the Sata II is 3.0 Gbit/s.
