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Difference between IDE, SATA and ATA?
I have some older ID full sized (3.5?) hard drives from desktop
computers laying around after I replaced then with larger versions. I would like to put them in and external firewire / USB case. I was looking on eBay asking if an IDE drive will fit certain boxes and a few have said no that the case was for an SATA. I thought ATA and SATA used the same connector and were backward compatible. Is there a site that shows the internal connectors and explains what are IDE, SATA and ATA? |
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Difference between IDE, SATA and ATA?
"DJW" wrote in message ... I have some older ID full sized (3.5?) hard drives from desktop computers laying around after I replaced then with larger versions. I would like to put them in and external firewire / USB case. I was looking on eBay asking if an IDE drive will fit certain boxes and a few have said no that the case was for an SATA. I thought ATA and SATA used the same connector and were backward compatible. Is there a site that shows the internal connectors and explains what are IDE, SATA and ATA? Wikipedia |
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Difference between IDE, SATA and ATA?
On Feb 26, 2:29 pm, Scott wrote:
DJW wrote: I have some older ID full sized (3.5?) hard drives from desktop computers laying around after I replaced then with larger versions. I would like to put them in and external firewire / USB case. I was looking on eBay asking if an IDE drive will fit certain boxes and a few have said no that the case was for an SATA. I thought ATA and SATA used the same connector and were backward compatible. Is there a site that shows the internal connectors and explains what are IDE, SATA and ATA? ATA/IDE (now called PATA) and SATA both use a totally different cable and are not compatible. ok another follow up qustion if my hard drive I want to put in it is 4” wide by about 5 3/4” deep by about 1 “ thick. what size is it is it called a 2.5, 3.5 or is it a 5.25? |
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Difference between IDE, SATA and ATA?
DJW wrote:
On Feb 26, 2:29 pm, Scott wrote: DJW wrote: I have some older ID full sized (3.5?) hard drives from desktop computers laying around after I replaced then with larger versions. I would like to put them in and external firewire / USB case. I was looking on eBay asking if an IDE drive will fit certain boxes and a few have said no that the case was for an SATA. I thought ATA and SATA used the same connector and were backward compatible. Is there a site that shows the internal connectors and explains what are IDE, SATA and ATA? ATA/IDE (now called PATA) and SATA both use a totally different cable and are not compatible. ok another follow up qustion if my hard drive I want to put in it is 4” wide by about 5 3/4” deep by about 1 “ thick. what size is it is it called a 2.5, 3.5 or is it a 5.25? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive Name: Width * Height * Length 8 inch: 9.5 in * 4.624 in * 14.25 in 5.25 inch: 5.75 in * 1.63 in * 8 in 3.5 inch: 4 in * 1 in * 5.75 in ---- your disk 2.5 inch: 2.75 in * 0.374-0.59 in * 3.945 in 1.8 inch: 54 mm * 8 mm * 71 mm A desktop CDROM drive is a 5.25" drive device. Desktop hard drives are 3.5". Laptop hard drives are 2.5". Just some rough rules of thumb. Laptop 2.5" drives have a 44 pin connector on 2mm spacing (extra 4 pins handle power) Desktop 3.5" drives have a 40 pin connector on 0.1" spacing. SATA drive devices of various sizes, may have 15 pin power, 7 pin data. Extremely small SATA devices, use a different connector scheme, and may require the user to find the right adapter (seen on small SSDs). Here, you can see a microSATA SSD, with a regular SATA connector adapter on the end. http://www.digitalintelligence.com/c...dapter_med.jpg HTH, Paul |
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