Thome25 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I looking into getting a external enclosure and was wondering what is the difference betwwen a ATA and IDE external enclosure. I got a Maxtor / 160 / 7200 / 8mb / ATA-133 / EIDE / OEM / Hard drive that I wanna use with my current hard drive and I dont wanna get the wrong enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eber Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I believe what you need for that drive is the IDE enclosure. IDE is basically PATA (parallel) and the new "ATA" technology is really SATA (serial). Therefore, I believe what you want is the IDE enclosure. I'm a bit lazy right now to double check--so do it yourself. :google: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzone Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 -- ATA is really IDE. SATA is Serial ATA which is something different. ATA generally comes in 3 speeds, and im saying this off memory so don't hold me to it. ATA - 66 ATA - 100 ATA - 133 the 66,100,133 basically mean 66MBPS, 100MBPS these are dma modes meaning the way u can access memory and the speed u can travel on DMA channels. man in effort to end geeky, ATA and IDE is the same thing. IDE is the name of the plug, ATA is the method technology that IDE uses, and in your case it's almost always ATA-133 especially if it's a large harddrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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