Serial ATA is nice, but the advantage of smaller, more flexible cabling isn't advantageous if a parallel ATA cable is still needed for the optical drive. For a typical system with a one hard drive ...

Hey, <BR>This question came up a while back and I did some research and at the time it appeared that all optical (dvd, cd-rom etc) drives were ATAPI, which is EIDE, which is ata 33. Someone was ...

The Intel P965 chipset, code-named Broadwater, is signaling the end of the road for the outdated parallel ATA (PATA) interface. Instead, Intel is opting to exclusively push the more modern Serial ATA ...

Intel's P965 chipset and Microsoft's Vista operating system are expected to speed up adoption of SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) and displace ATAPI (ATA packet interface) as the ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has been the most successful peripheral interface in the history of PCs. USB 2.0 is poised to succeed the first generation and offers particular benefit to the mass ...

A new revision of the Serial ATA interface specification has been published, paving the way for thinner and lighter notebooks and netbooks. The Serial ATA (Sata) Revision 3.0 specification was ...

Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, drives have virtually the same physical characteristics and platter speeds. However, the Serial ATA bus supports much faster data throughput ...

Optical drives are made to play discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. MileA/Getty Images Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every ...