Pata Drive

[LAURENU2]

I know about a sata drive But what is a pata drive is it a new ide drive or a updat to the sata drive?
Anyone Know?:confused:

[IronBits]

Pata is a standard IDE drive (parallel) that you all know as, 33, 66, 100, 133mb/s rated speeds.

[GHOST]

pata=ata i believe.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/directron/patasata.html#verses

[Scooby Doo]

Pata @ Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA)

[Fozzie]

PATA = Pants At Transferring Anything

SATA = Slick At Tranferring Anything

Out with the old in with the new :)

[LAURENU2]

OK thanks to all
If your in need of a new sata OR pata 100 MB hard drive here is a good deal
99.99 with a 70.00 rebate = 29.99
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=213274
only until 2/12/06 feb/12th/2006
Im going to get 2 of them:banana:

[Shish]

Damn....we never get any rebate deals over this side of the pond.

[LAURENU2]

Damn....we never get any rebate deals over this side of the pond.
Thats because it would be hard for the postman to carry so many pounds-->:rotfl: