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Title: Hard Drive
Post by: Elfie on October 20, 2007, 07:50:54 PM

I need to buy a hard drive. My motherboard supports IDE and ATA. My question is this, is ATA and SATA interchangeable? I'm asking because I'm seeing just a few IDE and ATA drives and a lot of SATA drives at http://www.newegg.com

Title: Hard Drive
Post by: TequilaChaser on October 21, 2007, 09:35:17 AM

IDE is ATA33, 66, 100, 133 and uses the old wide thin ribbon cables

SATA is not interchangeable with ATA.  IDE & ATA usually are the same thing when looking at hard drives, just different companys post different details.

 SATA starts at 150/1.5 gig transfer rate and goes to SATA-II which is 300 / or 3.0 gig trnafer rate...

SATA/SATA-II has a small thick  cable and small L shaped connectors

you can swap data back and forth though..just difference in interface/speeds

Post your MotherBoard Model # and we can tell you if you can use SATA drives or not, it is the new wave of interfaces, lots faster and some MB's dont even come with IDE slots any more.....

hope this helps

Title: Hard Drive
Post by: Elfie on October 21, 2007, 04:27:16 PM

I have a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939 pin motherboard.

And yes, that helps, thanks :)

Title: Hard Drive
Post by: AKDogg on October 21, 2007, 07:59:13 PM

According to the model K8NS ultra that u state u have, U can use SATA Harddrives.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=1839&ProductName=GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939