HDD: ALSO KNOWN AS . . .

Meta: Author: lyberty Article last updated: October 13, 2005

[ tech/computing ] [Hard drive types ata-133 sata ] EDIT THIS TABLE also known as (primary) also known as CLASS (category) "Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s" SATA-II 1 gigabit-per-second serial ata. Serial ATA (SATA) Ultra ATA-100 ATA Ultra-100 Ultra ATA/100 Parallel ATA EIDE Fast ATA Western Digital proprietary implementation of IDE, essentially just Fast ATA; has support for support for Direct Memory Access (DMA); EIDE was adopted as a standard by ANSI in 1994. ANSI calls it Advanced Technology Attachment-2 (ATA-2; it's also referred to as "Fast ATA"). Parallel ATA ATA-133 ATA133 ata133 ; ATA/133   ATA-100 ATA100 ata100 ; ATA/100       ultra DMA33 / ata66 / ata100 / ata133     Variations on "Serial ATA": SATA ; Serial-ATA . . . Note: Before the introduction of SATA, "Parallel ATA" was just "ATA" and it's many varieties; includes "Ultra ATA", and so on. Now the two can be distinguished by calling the older drives PATA... random quotes: "my motherboard has two IDE controllers with PIO, bus master (ultra DMA33/ata66/ata100/ata133) operation modes"

2005-10-25,2007-01-28