Today's hard drives use SATA or SAS interfaces, which are the serial versions of their PATA and SCSI predecessors. SATA drives are found in most personal computers unless they use solid state ...

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 ...

SATA hard drives can operate in a backward-compatible PATA/IDE mode, a standard AHCI mode, or vendor-specific RAID. Essentially, IDE is considered adequate for the average computer user and is the ...