ATA & SATA

[Guest]

Folks:


What is the difference between ATA & SATA as applied to a hard drive.



Thanks in advance.
Jo.

 

[Edwin vMierlo]

Oops, please ignore... cross posted, not multi posted

 

[Yves Leclerc]

ATA is Atapi connection, which can also be known as IDE. Fastest bus speed
can be 133 only and is old technology. Now can also be known as PATA
(Parallel ATA.)

SATA is short for Serial ATA. New technology for drives. Promising faster
and large capacity drives. Better for overall cooling of PCs.

 

[herbzee]

Picking up the thread, can I use an SATA HDD in an ABIT IT7 motherboard?
I Have open PCI slots. Running Win XP, SP2.

 

[Anna]

Picking up the thread, can I use an SATA HDD in an ABIT IT7 motherboard? I
Have open PCI slots. Running Win XP, SP2.

herbzee:
Your ABIT motherboard has SATA connectors does it not? You can connect a
SATA HDD direct to one of those connectors; you do not use a PCI slot for an
ordinary SATA HDD connection.

I believe that mother board supports the SATA 1.5 Gb/sec data interface and
not the 3.0 Gb/sec one (the newer SATA-II HDDs). You can still use a SATA-II
HDD with that motherboard. You may have to jumper it for the 1.5 Gb/sec
interface although that's usually unnecessary since SATA-II HDDs are
normally backwards compatible with the earlier specification and do not need
that jumper configuration. You can generally use them as they come from the
factory. But sometimes it is necessary.
Anna

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Picking up the thread, can I use an SATA HDD in an ABIT IT7
motherboard?

Googling "ABIT IT7" shows that the answer is yes. It has SATA support.

I Have open PCI slots.

Irrelevant. That would only be an issue if the motherboard had no SATA
support, and you therefore would have to add a SATA card to provide that
support.

Running Win XP, SP2.

Also irrelevant. This is a hardware issue, not an operating system one.

 

[herbzee]

herbzee:
Your ABIT motherboard has SATA connectors does it not? You can connect a
SATA HDD direct to one of those connectors; you do not use a PCI slot for an
ordinary SATA HDD connection.

I believe that mother board supports the SATA 1.5 Gb/sec data interface and
not the 3.0 Gb/sec one (the newer SATA-II HDDs). You can still use a SATA-II
HDD with that motherboard. You may have to jumper it for the 1.5 Gb/sec
interface although that's usually unnecessary since SATA-II HDDs are
normally backwards compatible with the earlier specification and do not need
that jumper configuration. You can generally use them as they come from the
factory. But sometimes it is necessary.
Anna

Thanx Anna, checked my M Board manual and find no reference SATA
support, only Ultra ATA and ATA support.
BTW still waiting for Ur reply for the step by step Acronis offer.
Cheers-Herb.

 

[Anna]

Thanx Anna, checked my M Board manual and find no reference SATA support,
only Ultra ATA and ATA support.
BTW still waiting for Ur reply for the step by step Acronis offer.
Cheers-Herb.

Herb:
Setting aside the motherboard's User Manual (although I'm certain the
information re SATA connectors is referred to there)...

Take a look at your motherboard. Do you not see SATA connectors (probably
two)? They're probably labeled SATA0 (or 1) & SATA1 (or 2). If they're
there, and I'm pretty sure that they're there - that's where you plug in
your SATA HDD(s).

As to the Acronis True Image step-by-step instructions...

I did respond to your message ("Re: XP home backup utility") on 11/18
posting the instructions. If you can't locate them, so indicate, and I'll
post them again under this thread.
Anna