a solid state drive is faster than an sata drive...
Your question is not correct. Some solid states are SATA, some of them are PATA, and rest is IDE.
Both are good but the 500 GB is better.
Sata of course. It is much much better/faster/economical.
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.
No. IDE Hard Drive cannot be replaced with a Sata Hard Drive because the connectors are different. example. if you have sata hard drive installed on your machine. and you purchase IDE Hard drive. you won't be able to install the IDE hard drive where the Sata hard drive was because the IDE connectors are a different shape and size towards the Sata hard drive connectors.
A serial hard drive is the same as a SATA hard drive. SATA is Serial ATA, and PATA is Parallel ATA.
Yes it is a sata drive. It is a internal hard.
Someone can purchase a SATA hard drive from a number of companies such as Amazon. Amazon has a large selection of SATA hard drives from a number of manufacturers.
An SAS hard drive has many high performance advantages over a SATA drive. The main thing that makes it better is the speed. A typical SATA drive operates at 7200 RPM, yet a typical SAS drive operates at 10,000 or 15,000 RPM.
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This partica\ular hardrive is a SATA model.
ATA and Solid State are two different things. ATA is a connector type with SATA being it's newer form. Solid State is a type of drive medium which the data is stored on. A typical Hard Drive uses spinning platters while a Solid State drive uses flash media with no moving parts.