May 27, 200620 yr Hello All!Today's futureshop flyer advertised a 250gb Maxtor PATA drive. I instinctivly went out and started looking on the net. MY question is, my computer has IDE/ATA only, will a PATA drive be compatable? I'm really hoping so, because this is one hell of a deal!
May 27, 200620 yr Yup, PATA = Parallell ATA, the big flat IDE-cables SATA = Serial ATA, the new smaller ones.
May 27, 200620 yr Becareful...retail boxed drives from what I remember typically have only a 1 year warranty. If you go to a computer store and buy an OEM model hard drive, most come with 3 or 5 year warranties. Edited May 27, 200620 yr by ssmokee
May 28, 200620 yr Becareful...retail boxed drives from what I remember typically have only a 1 year warranty. If you go to a computer store and buy an OEM model hard drive, most come with 3 or 5 year warranties.OEM drives are also cheaper since they don't come with a lot of wasteful packaging material.
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