When replacing the hard drive on ... pins or contacts on the cables. A PATA drive requires 39 or 40 holes in the data cable, and four pins on the power connection. A SATA drive requires two ...

Manufacturers seal hard drives in hermetic rooms ... ever need to configure the jumper settings on a SATA drive. For another, the old PATA data cables looked like seat belts; they were fragile ...

Where the SATA data cable ... speed external drives use USB 3.0 connections, commonly with the Type-C standard of the connector. In 2008 SATA was the standard for PC and laptop hard drives and ...