HARD DRIVE INFO

SATA - Sata is a serial ATA; an evolution of the Parallel ATA physical storage interface. Transfer rates for Serial ATA begin at 150mbps.

Note: Serial ATA supports all ATA and ATAPI devices.

SCSI(small computer system interface)
SCSI interface provide for faster data transmission rates (up to 80 megabytes per second)



Basic Disks
Dynamic disks

use partitions
use volumes

partition using mbr method
partition using mbr method

format with with FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS
Format with FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS

MS-DOS, WIndows 3.x, windows 95, windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Windows 2000, Windows XP




Volume Types


Windows XP Professional supports 3 types of dynamic volumes:

*Simple Volumes - single disk only
*Striped volumes Equal size each disk in the volume
*Spanned volumes - two or more dynamic disks