SATA: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. The current standard technology for connecting a hard drive or SSD to the rest of the computer. IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics. The older standard ...

I need to extend the IDE cable going to the slim-style DVD drive in my mom's computer. The problem is that it uses a weird 50-pin IDE connector, which carries power as well as the IDE signal.< ...

In its original Parallel ATA format, a computer had two IDE channels -- primary and secondary. Each channel could connect two devices, configured as "master" and "slave." The master device on the ...