A sata cable connects a motherboard to a Sata hard drive. Modern power supplies have special chords made to power Sata hard drives where as old ones do not. Older computers have Eide cables to connect the motherboard to the hard drive.
A sata cable connects a motherboard to a Sata hard drive. Modern power supplies have special chords made to power Sata hard drives where as old ones do not. Older computers have Eide cables to connect the motherboard to the hard drive.
In very broad strokes:
PATA (parallel ATA) is the most recent incarnation of what has been variously called the EIDE/IDE/ATA/ATAPI interface ("ATA: comes from AT Attachment because it was introduced on the IBM AT in the '80s). For most users, the important difference is improved speed; the interface cables are all compatible.
The interface was renamed PATA specifically to easily distinguish it from SATA.
SATA (serial ATA) was designed in 2003 to replace PATA and has become the standard interface for consumer PCs since 2009.
SATA drives are faster with have greater capacity than PATA, and the SATA interface permits "hot swapping."
The SATA cable is not compatible with PATA, however.
PATA can be expressed as an IDE or EIDE cable as well.
the pata cable has the colors of the rainbow such as blue and red.
yes. pata and ide are the same thing.
40 Pins and 80 wires. Maximum recommended length is 18" but can purchase 24" cables.
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to make the computer function
Round cables obstruct air flow less inside the case
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Differences between PATA and SATA hardrive are most visible in regards to the cables. A PATA hard drive has what is called a ribbon cable which is kind of big compared to the small SATA cable. The PATA ribbon cable has 40 pins that connect to the hard drive and/or motherboard whereas the SATA cable only has 7 pins allowing for the computer as a whole to be much cooler due to more empty space inside it for air to flow more freely. Also, I believe that the SATA drives are faster than IDE or PATA, especially if it is a SATA III which can transfer at speeds up to 6 gbs/per second.