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2. Parallel ATA - Wikipedia

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   Parallel ATA (PATA), originally AT Attachment, also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a standard interface designed for IBM PC-compatible computers.It was first developed by Western Digital and Compaq in 1986 for compatible hard drives and CD or DVD drives.

3. Hard disk drive interface - Wikipedia

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   Several Parallel ATA hard disk drives. Parallel ATA, originally IDE and then standardized under the name AT Attachment (ATA), with the alias P-ATA or PATA retroactively added upon introduction of the new variant Serial ATA. The original name (circa 1986) reflected the integration of the controller with the hard drive itself.

4. Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools - Wikipedia

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   IDE(PATA), SATA, NVMe eSATA, USB, IEEE 1394: Several RAID controllers [4] Yes No Mail, sound and popup Sister utility to CrystalDiskMark. Has AAM/APM control. Defraggler: Windows: Freeware: GUI IDE(PATA), SATA eSATA, USB No Yes No No Primarily a defragmenter; supports basic S.M.A.R.T. stat display, includes the one-word summary of drive-health ...

5. SATA - Wikipedia

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   A 3.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive A 2.5-inch Serial ATA solid-state drive. SATA was announced in 2000 [4] [5] in order to provide several advantages over the earlier PATA interface such as reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40 or 80), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signaling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing ...

6. Spin-up - Wikipedia

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   Power-up in standby (PUIS), also known as PM2 by Western Digital, [5] is used on some Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (sometimes called PATA or IDE) hard disk drives. PUIS requires BIOS and/or driver support to use. [6] When power is applied to the hard disk drive, the drive will not spin-up until a SET FEATURES device spin-up command [7] is ...

7. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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   DBAN can be booted from a CD, DVD, USB flash drive or diskless using a Preboot Execution Environment. It is based on Linux and supports PATA (IDE), SCSI and SATA hard drives. DBAN can be configured to automatically wipe every hard disk that it sees on a system or entire network of systems, making it very useful for unattended data destruction ...