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Hard Drive Connections. The Difference????
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fa35jsf
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_ 		21. July 2005 @ 08:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am looking at building my own computer and i was wondering if there is a real difference between serial ATA hard drives and a standard IDE hard drive. i noticed serial ATA is more expensive.
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YamKoo
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_ 		21. July 2005 @ 09:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Serial ATA connections use a different kind of power plug, and a different cable. A SATA cable is thin and small, unlike standard IDE gray ribbon cables. Also, SATA has a much higher bandwidth for sending and receiving data, and can be hot-swapped in a computer while it is running (SATA 2 only, IIRC).

You can build very large RAID arrays with SATA as well, as certain motherboards and controller cards allow you to plug in 8 or more drives in an array.
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