why is sata hard disks have better data transfer over ide in spite of having less number of data lines than that of ide hard disk?
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Jump to Postbecause SATA is serial and IDE (now called PATA) is Paralell.
SCSI was also faster than IDE. Dont know in comparison with SATA but most servers these days have all three
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because SATA is serial and IDE (now called PATA) is Paralell.
SCSI was also faster than IDE. Dont know in comparison with SATA but most servers these days have all three
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its allabout bandwidth ,speed of data transfer .
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/is_11_22/ai_98977132
actually after more reading im not sure if the difference is any thing more that just better cables .lol
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Sata II is 3gbs
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