On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/23/2011 7:42 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Kevin K <kevink1@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos