I'm not much of an expert, but here's my knowledge on the subject.<BR><BR>IDE is the interface you're familiar with, ribbon cables and everything. It's a Parallel ATA system, hence PATA. It's growing ...
We're planning on putting SATA SSDs into one of our boxes at work that has a SCSI interface. I'm wary of installing a new SATA card as it's pretty old hardware and we might get compatibility problems.
Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA ...
SCSI devices were found in hundreds of different models of computers from the 80s, from SUN boxes to cute little Macs. These hard drives and CDROMs are slowly dying, and with that goes an entire ...