Newbie Need Help. About HDD

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5had0w

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Nowadays, there are harddisk with different specification on the market. I often saw those kind of words like SATA, ATA-133........etc. Does it matter if i buy any one of them? I mean, does my motherboard support both of them? Or i have to buy different motherboard for different HDD?
 
HDD 101.

Whether or not your motherboard supports it or not depends on the motherboard. All will support the type labeled as "ATA-133" .,... now whether there are available slots for it is another question
 
Praetor said:
HDD 101.

Whether or not your motherboard supports it or not depends on the motherboard. All will support the type labeled as "ATA-133" .,... now whether there are available slots for it is another question
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What do u mean by "Whether or not your motherboard supports it or not depends..................".

?? Whether or not my motherboard supports it, is not depends on the motherboard??

available slots for it........ doesn't it every mobo has a slot for HDD?
 
I think the meaning got garbled by the translation. Most motherboards now support SATA and ATA133 drives, but some older motherboard don't support SATA.
available slots for it........ doesn't it every mobo has a slot for HDD?
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Your motherboard might not have any slots free (ie. they all have a drive on them already)
 
hm let me try this another way, your motherboard has ata133/100/66/33 connections and it might have SATA connections (it might not, I don't know what board you have). Of the ata connectors, you might not have one that is free
 
as a general rule there are two connections on the motherboard known as IDE controllers that allow you to connect hard drives, as well as optical drives(cd-rom, etc) to the motherboard...each of these 2 connections can support up to 2 devices, how many such devices do you have in your system already? how many hard drives and disk drives do you have?
 
The ATA 100/33 etc uses the wide ribbon cable. The Serial ATA (SATA) uses a small skinny cable. Unless you purchased a higher end computer it will more than likely use IDE or ATA.
 
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