PATA ribbon cables take up a lot of space and ... decreasing drain on the PSU and decreasing the heat output of the system as a whole; important for those large RAID arrays and allows greater ...

SATA cables have replaced the PATA (Parallel ATA) cables and have now become the IDE standard of choice to connect storage devices in a computer system. This is due to the fact that SATA is much ...

While it may be slow, it shows that talking to PATA hard disks is actually quite straightforward when you understand the basics. Of course, if you want to do the opposite, and have your Raspberry ...