which are the serial versions of their PATA and SCSI predecessors. SATA drives are found in most personal computers unless they use solid state drives (SSDs), in which case the NVMe interface is ...

Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand ... PCI Express provides a faster interface speed than SATA and it's slowly replacing it as the new standard for high performance SSDs.

See serial interface. Earlier printers used a Centronics parallel cable to attach to the computer, and disk drives used a parallel ATA (PATA) cable to connect to the motherboard. See Centronics ...