On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > On 5/24/2011 10:05 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: >>> On 5/23/2011 7:42 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Kevin K <kevink1 at fidnet.com> wrote: >>>>> A SSD drive can be a SATA drive. SATA is the connection/protocol between the drive and the computer. >>>> >>>> Not quite. SATA is a type of drive, same as IDE / ATA, SCSI, SATA :) >>> SATA is the connection. This is why you can have SATA hard drives and >>> DVD drives. The same goes for IDE, SCSI, USB, and Firewire. They are >>> connection types for accessing storage devices. They can connect to >>> traditional hard drives, SSD drives, DVD drives, raid enclosures, etc. >>> >>> -- >>> Bowie >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> So what do you call an actual SATA HDD then???? It's still a SATA HDD, >> and it's still different from IDE, SCSI, SAS, SSD > > Personally, I would call it an SATA HDD vs an SATA SSD. The same would > be true of a SCSI HDD vs a SCSI SSD. > > At the moment, if you say "SATA drive", most people will understand you > to mean hard drive simply because the solid state drives are not common > enough. If the price drops and they start taking over the market, then > the understanding of "SATA drive" will probably change to refer to an SSD. > > >From Wikipedia: > Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer > bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices > such as hard disk drives and optical drives. > > -- > Bowie > _______________________________________________ But don't you think that a SSD, or rather Solid State Drive, would still be seen as a different type of drive than a SATA drive, even though they share the same type of bus & connector + power cable? I know you get some USB type SSD's, but people still refer to them as SSD drives, and not USB drives -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532