SATA cables.
SATA Cables
Drivers are connected to the motherboard with ribbon cables or thinner SERIAL ATA cables.
Drives are linked by cables called SATA cables, these send data through the motherboard
I installed my own sound card, and no cables are connected to it. It just sits in a slot on the motherboard.
IDE cables in computers are used to connect Hard Disk Drives and CD/DVD Drives to the motherboard. - Neeraj Sharma
the hdd
ide data cable or sata cable
- How hard drives and other drives interface with a computer system (type of cables and connectors used by drives, motherboard or expansion cards) - Data speeds and transfer methods between the drive controller, the BIOS, the chip-sets on motherboard, and the OS
- How hard drives and other drives interface with a computer system (type of cables and connectors used by drives, motherboard or expansion cards) - Data speeds and transfer methods between the drive controller, the BIOS, the chip-sets on motherboard, and the OS
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.
Most likely, but not necessarily. It all depends on what kind of motherboard you have. Most modern motherboards require SATA cables to connect to storage devices, but there are some that can still use a PATA (also known as IDE) cable for HDDs. Regarding SSDs, most of them connect to motherboards through SATA cables, but there are some that can be connected to the motherboard through a PCIe X4 slot.
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.
Data cables (called ata cables or serial or SCSI) simply transfer data from one device to the motherboard inside or even to another device hooked up to the same cable. An example would be a cdrom drive could transfer data for listening to music via the data cable and the motherboard would process it and produce sound via speakers.