BLSM IDE Cable Flat for Data Transfer Motherboard to Hard-disk Or HDD Blade Server

It's important to be able to identify an IDE drive, cables, and ports when you're upgrading your computer hardware or buying new devices that you'll plug into your computer. For example, knowing whether you have an IDE hard drive will determine what you need to buy to replace your hard drive. If you have a newer SATA hard drive and SATA connections, but then go out and buy an older PATA drive, you'll find that you can't connect it to your computer as easily as you'd hoped. The same is true for external enclosures, which let you run hard drives outside your computer over USB. If you have a PATA hard drive, you'll need to use an enclosure that supports PATA and not SATA. Generally, IDE refers to the types of cables and ports used to connect some hard drives and optical drives to each other and to the motherboard. An IDE cable, then, is a cable that meets this specification. Some popular IDE implementations that you might come across in computers are PATA (Parallel ATA), the older IDE standard, and SATA (Serial ATA), the newer one. Most suitable for PATA/IDE devices where power loss is not allowable like HDD's and CD writers. Cable Length with connectors is 16.5 inches. A single IDE interface can support two devices. To allow for two drives on the same cable, IDE uses a special configuration called master and slave. This configuration allows one drive's controller to tell the other drive when it can transfer data to or from the computer.