On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > My machines are all old and use only IDE. As for SATA I don't see how > that could be better. > The S stands for serial or one bit at a time. A SATA drive interface has > only 4 lines going > into it vs IDE which has 44 lines. On SATA 2 lines are for power, the > other 2 lines are for data. > Using the same clock which do you think is faster?
Ah, yes. Parallel must be faster than serial. I know it seems intuitive, but it isn't true. Go Look Stuff Up. Your ignorance of recent development is showing. Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
