17) SATA, PATA or IDE connectors -Ide: In general, the IDE / ATA connector

17) SATA, PATA or IDE connectors
-Ide: In general, the IDE / ATA connector of the motherboard is a simple 40-pin connector to which a flat cable is fastened, which goes from the motherboard to the disk drive. These pins are a subset of the 98 contacts of the 16-bit ISA slots. The reason is that a disk controller never needs more than 40 ISA bus signals.
- Ata: is a data transfer interface between the motherboard and some storage devices, such as the hard disk, CD / DVD / BR readers and re-writers, Solid State Units or other high-performance devices that are still being developed. The ATA standard allows storage peripherals to be connected directly to the motherboard using a ribbon cable, usually consisting of 40 parallel wires and three connectors (usually a blue connector for the motherboard and a black connector and a gray connector for the two peripherals). storage).
- Sata: The sata connector is very thin and lightweight, and barring some new introductions in the present, it does not have a safe that affirms it in the motherboard or in the device, which makes it a very weak connector, too exposed to unplugging or make bad contact with a simple transfer of a PC (in fact the first thing I do when a PC does not boot is to check the SATA cable, and believe me, it is a very high percentage) this is something unforgivable for so many companies and engineers involved.
- Pata: PATA is an abbreviation of adjunct of advanced technology in parallel. It is a regular interface that is used within PCs to connect all kinds of storage devices such as hard drives, CD or DVD drives and solid state disks to the motherboard. The PATA interface connector consists of thirty-four pins and connects to a flat ribbon cable about two inches wide. It does not support hot swapping.