Hard Drives connect to the motherboard one of two ways. Either using a 40-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable, or an 80-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable. HDD stands for Hard Drive Disk.
Ide cable
No
Mother Board, RAM, Hard disk drive DVD drive
No the hard drive is attached to the motherboard via a IDE/SATA cable
Not necessarily. "ATA-150" is SATA. If your motherboard has an IDE controller, the disk will work. If the board has only SATA, you will not be able to connect the drive without an adapter.
Hard drive is where all of your data is saved, it's a hardware component of your computer. The mother board is where all of these components are connected to your computer and allows them to work together.
Yes, the motherboard does determine what hard drive can be installed. A computer is made for the hard drive to be compatible with whatever mother board is installed.
It is a floppy cable with 64 little cables in it, with 40 pin holes, to connect to mother board and hard drive and DVD. black part connect to the motherboard grey part to hardisk and blue part to DVD. hope that does it. plain and simple
It is a floppy cable with 64 little cables in it, with 40 pin holes, to connect to mother board and hard drive and DVD. black part connect to the motherboard grey part to hardisk and blue part to DVD. hope that does it. plain and simple
To connect an external hard drive it would, but that would be the only reason to connect USB.
For today's hard drives, the hard drive controller is firmware on a circuit board on or inside the drive housing.
The first place to look for that solution is the motherboard. Either search to see specifications by entering the model of the board you have of simply find the answer in the mother board manual. If you have a system from a manufacturer and are adding the second hard drive to an existing system, then the hard drive you currently are using can lead you to the type of acceptable drive.
To start, the hard drive cable connects your hard drive to your motherboard. Its really simple.