PCi vs SATA

[questionit]

Hi

Could any one please explain the difference between PCI and SATA ?

I cudnt find it on the internet

Thanks

Qi

[DonRayner]

This would be the description of PCI or "Peripheral Component Interconnect"

and

This would be the description of of SATA or "Serial Advanced Technology Attachment"

Hope this clears things up for you.

[Banfa]

OK I've moved this to the Windows forum. This is really a hardware question and we have no hardware forum so if you actually use Linux then I guess that forum would be more appropriate for it.

Anyway asking "Could any one please explain the difference between PCI and SATA ?" is a bit like asking "What's the difference between a pencil and an apple?" There is no basis for comparison they are completely different things.

PCI is a bus that is used to connect peripheral hardware, modems, I/O cards, very low end graphics cards to the processor in a PC. It replaced the existing (E)ISA bus and has fairly recently been replaced by the PCI Express bus.

SATA or Serial ATA is a bus used to connect a hard disk drive to the hard disk controller. It is a serial version of and replacement for ATA, now often refered to as PATA or Parallel ATA.