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?
Jicky 3 Junior Poster in Training
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
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
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
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
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Sata II is 3gbs
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