Different Types of Hard Disk Drive
Different Types of Hard Disk Drive
Different Types of Hard Disk Drive
It is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters
with magnetic surface.
Types of HDD :
1. IDE : Integrated Drive Electronics. IDE drives are also known as PATA drives( Parallel
advance technology attachment )
2. SATA : Serial advance technology attachment
3. SCSI : Small Computer System Interface. SCSI is pronounced as scuzzy.
4. SAS : Serial Attached SCSI
IDE / PATA (Integrated Drive Electronics Drive / Parallel Advance Technology Attachment
Drive):
PATA Cables are used to connect PATA HDD. Two drives can be connected in a single
pata cable. One as master and other as slave. The configuration of master and slave is
done by different combination of jumpers in the hdd.
SATA (Serial Advance Technology Attachment Drive):SATA Drives have usually 7 pins, 4 pins in pair of two for sending and receiving data and rest 3
pins are grounded.
SATA Drives offers generally 300MB/sec transfer rate.
It sends data bit by bit.
SATA Cables are used to connect SATA HDD. Only one drive can be connected in a
single sata cable.
SCSI cables are used to connect SCSI HDD. Maximum of 16 drives can be connected in
a single scsi cable. Each hdd have a 8 bytes hexadecimal code known
as WWN (worldwide name) for its identification in the cable.
SAS Cables are used to connect SAS Drives. Maximum of 128 drives can be connected
in a single sas cable.
Note: - RPM (Revolutions per minute) of SCSI, SAS is higher than IDE and
SATA hard disks. Higher the RPM the faster is the speed of the machine.