 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: Chriscento |
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| IDE means Integrated Drive Electronics. IDE was created as a way to standardize the use of hard drives in computers. The basic concept behind IDE is that the hard drive and the controller should be combined. The controller is a small circuit board with chips that provide guidance as to exactly how the hard drive stores and accesses data. Most controllers also include some memory that acts as a buffer to enhance hard drive performance.
EIDE means Enhanced IDE. Enhanced IDE, also called EIDE, is a term that Western Digital coined in 1994 to represent a particular set of extensions it devised to the original AT Attachment standard. At that time, the official ATA standard was rather limiting, and work was progressing towards the new ATA-2 standard. Western Digital decided that it did not want to wait for the new standard, and also that it could better position itself as a market leader by creating a new feature set for (then) future drives. Regards, Honey |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| An IDE drive is Integrated Drive electronics and an EIDE drive is an Enhanced Drive electronics drive. Nothing noticable to the user. The EIDE 'may' be faster.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| sorry its eide not dide | |
| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: hard drive |
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| hi can anyone tell me if their is a difference between a ide and a dide hard drive please
Thanks |
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