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What is Serial ATA and should I disable it

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magomago

Lifer
I just got my Asus A7N8X-D mobo and I was reading through it and it said "Serial ATA is enabled by Default"

What is that? I'm going to be using the 80 gig WD Special Edition so should I disable it?
 
You can disable it in the BIOS for now, as you don't have a SerialATA drive. SATA is the successor to parallel ATA (the 40-pin IDE cables are parallel ATA). It allows faster speeds, but currently is only available via an addin controller (or chip added to the motherboard), and there aren't any drives available yet. Disabling it will avoid loading drivers for an unused piece of hardware.

You can easily find more information about SerialATA on AT and many other sites. It is the future. 🙂
 
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