SATA Power Cable Connectors: SATA power cable connectors feature 15 pins and three pins within the connector are used to supply different voltages in a parallel manner. SATA Data Cable Connectors ...

SATA drives transmit data at an average speed of 150 Mbps (and, this year, 3.0-Gbps SATA technology is due out); compare that with the 133-Mbps data-transmission rate provided by IDE drives.

The Brando offering is different. It’s basically a USB cable terminated with 2.5″ IDE, 3.5″ IDE and a SATA port. They thoughtfully include a mini power brick to power your drives. The brick comes with ...

The SATA to IDE converter covers a range of Ultra-DMA speeds upto 150Mb/s and also has a 48 bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) which breaks the capacity limit of 137Gb.

Vantec included a small SATA cable which makes install very straightforward. XD and SD card ports are found on this side, as is the FDD IDE port for when you need to use a floppy drive. Here we ...

Now the word’s gone all SATA, what to do with those obsolete IDE cables stashed in the junk draw? Fractal Spin decided to turn them into belts, taking the most colorful examples and evoking the ...

If you have a mix of legacy and modern storage devices, the StarTech.com USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA adapter allows simple plug-n-play functionality.

With its hot swap technology the EzCopy DD4 now has available 3.5″ and 2.5″ caddies allowing any IDE or SATA drives be attached to the EzCopy DD4 and making possible the creation of an exact copy of ...

Hard drives are available in two basic flavors: SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) and IDE (integrated drive electronics). IDE drives use a 40-pin connection (look for the wide, flat cable).

Even better, each individual SATA cable can be up to 1 meter in length, double that of parallel ATA. The SATA connector is also keyed so you can't connect it incorrectly.

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...