When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer ... is only a few years old, it almost certainly requires a SATA drive, which began replacing the slower PATA standard in 2003.

See serial interface. Earlier printers used a Centronics parallel cable to attach to the computer, and disk drives used a parallel ATA (PATA) cable to connect to the motherboard. See Centronics ...

What are PATA and SATA? In this guide we will be discussing the differences between Parallel ATA and Serial ATA, both are types of interface for disk drives in the average desktop PC. Firstly ...

I'm looking to turn this old computer into a file server ... does UltraDMA66-super-fast-with-friggin-lasers, but I understand PATA is currently at 133MB/s now. Can I buy any new PATA drive ...

At that time WD was a major manufacturer of silicon chips, having developed and produced the hard drive controller chips for the IBM PC/AT machines ... is the size, PATA cables are 20 pins wide ...