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From: Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: HOW2 copy IDE to SATA?
Date: 6 Jul 2012 05:34:08 GMT
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On 2012-06-12, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> no.top.post@gmail.com writes:
>
>> I read:
>>> You  can  buy  integrated motherboards that allow a computer to use
>>> both  SATA and IDE hard drives. However, only one of the two may be
>>> used  at  any  given  time  and both cannot be used simultaneously.
>>>
>
> Do you have a source for this quote?  I've never heard of a motherboard
> that couldn't use PATA and SATA smultaneously; I'm doing exactly that
> right now.
>
>> So if they can't run on the same PC at the same time, how do you
>> copy your old IDEs to a SATA?
>>
>> Are SATAs as reliable as IDE?
>
> Yes.

Lets us all remember that SATA is nothing more than an interface, it is not
the hardware plugged into it. Sorry to be a bit picky.

SSDs come in with a SATA interface but they are not mechanical like most
HDDs.