what is a pata hard drive?
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Your probably thinking of a PetaByte Hard drive.\n\n\n1 PetaByte = 1000 GigaBytes
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According to the Dell web site, it uses SATA drives.  If you have an IDE connector in there, you should able to connect it to that.  If it's already connected, you'll need to get an IDE cable that supports two drives and then make sure both drives have their jumpers properly configured.  If you aren't interested in all of that, just buy a USB hard drive enclosure and put your old drive into that.
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a bare drive is a hard drive in an anti static bag thats it a retail drive comes in a box with screws cables directions it is a way to save money but not really for a first time buyer with any new drive ATA you will need to set the jumper to master or slave partition and format before it will be usuable, do youself a favor if you dont know what you are doing take it to a pro as you can do some serious damage
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You can't "make" a hard drive an SATA2 drive.  It either was SATA2 when you bought it, or it wasn't.  You're talking about RAID 0, which can be done with either SATA1 or SATA2 drives.\n\nRAID will make a definite difference in throughput, but those weren't fast drives to begin with.  I'd recommend you spend $95 on a drive that's almost 3 times as big, and roughly 3x as fast: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140  Then, just use the Maxtor as either a spare drive, or as additionaly storage space.
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the short answer is the HD you have will connect to the motherboard you have.\n\nthe long answer is that there are 2 standards of connectors\n\nSata = Serial ATA \nPata = Parallel ATA used to be called only ATA before the pata was introduced few years ago.\n\ndevice that is not clearly marked sata is most probably pata.\n\n[edit]\n\nthe best speed of read and write you will get from sata 2 which is 300 MB/S.\n\nA good solution will be to connect 2 HDD in what is called raid 0 (striping)
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um...a hard drive in a digital camera? interesting. MAYBE you cant find it because it does not exist!
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well really depends on what kind of hardrives you have are they IDE or SATA?? sata has raid features on it so you can  also doesnt matter how much space yor disks have to spped up ur system it reallt matters on the system ram
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SATA is the newer tech.  SCSI has been around for a long time.  \nFor a desktop SATA2 is the way to go.  The most bang for the money.  Also, ignore 10,000 rpm or 15,000 rpm.  they only way a person will ever know the difference in harddrive speed is if they use bench marking software.  Hard disk controllers and hard drives themselves have on board memory called cache that helps move data at faster rates.\n\nSCSI is specifically for servers or video editing solutions.  It moves data at a constant rate were as SATA and the older ATA work at high speeds by using burst technology.
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For backup (one touch) i would go with Seagate, but for a portable hard drive i would use WD (western digital)\n\nBoth are excellent companies, and i haven't had a faulty product from them yet.
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Enable 48-bit LBA Support for Large Hard Drives should help you out.\nhttp://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1115/
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SATA is better because you dont need to bother with those bulky wide IDE cables. SATA drives also dont have jumpers and are much easier to work with.
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it depends on the machine itself, for home usage\ni would suggest the following\n1) Maxtor\n2) Western digital \n3) Seagate\nall have good warrenty, and i would suggest getting SATA rather than IDE for home usage.
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Look at the old hard drive.  There should be a label with the model number and manufacturer on it.  Search the model number at the manufacturer's web site.  It should tell you which kind of hard drive it it.\n\nTypically, it depends on what connector is on it.  A small connector which is about a little over half an inch is a serial ata connector.  A larger connector about 2 inches wide is a ata/uata/dma/udma/ide connector.  Each of these different modes are different transfer speeds, but plug looks the same.  By researching your model at the manufacturer's site will tell you what speed it will transfer at, thus giving you the right protocol hard drive to purchase.  \n\nfor example,\nultra 33 - theoretical 33 MHz transfer\nultra 66 - theoretical 66 MHz transfer\nultra 100 - theoretical 100 MHz transfer\nultra 133 - theoretical 133 MHz transfer\nsata 150 - theoretical 150 MHz transfer\n\nThere are also SCSI drives, but most mainstream home computers don't have them.\n\nHard drives don't come in RAID form, it is how how you set up your hard drives if your motherboard/host adapter supports RAID.  RAID is an array of hard drives.  You can use multiple hard drives in RAID to get effects such as combined output from multiple hard drives for more output speed, or for redundancy such as writing to two hard drives at once so you have an extra hard drive with with same data for backup in case one happens to die. More advanced versions of RAID can do both of these functions (combined output and redundancy) at the same time.
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Serial ATA.  It has an actual data transfer rate of 1.2 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), or 150 megabytes per second.\n\nMuch better than the standard ATA parallel cables.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
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Internal and external desktop hard drives are the same.  It's just that external desktop hard drives comes in a shell that allows you to use it outside of the computer case.\n\nAll desktop hard drives are mostly the same.  Unless you have a recent computer, try buying one that is "IDE" or "ATA".  Don't get a "SATA" or "Serial ATA" unless you know for sure your computer can use it.\n\nThere is also a notebook hard drive which are smaller than desktop hard drives.  You can tell by their sizes; desktop hard drives are 3.5" wide and notebook hard drives are 2.5" wide.  Notebook hard drives tend to cost more than desktop hard drives so that's another way to know.  Don't get a notebook hard drive for your desktop as there's no point in doing so.
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from the hard drive manufacturers website.
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sata drives have 2 cables, the first being the red 4 pin data transfer cable and the second being the black power connector\n         they are pretty similar to ata drives as they need a power source and a data cable \n          the good thing about sata drives is that if you have 2 or more you can set up a r.a.i.d (redundant array of inexpensive disks) were you can mirror disks to create faster data access