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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.

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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.

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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.

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