I'm trying to advance my knowledge of computers to todays standards. I built my own pc recently and used what I guess you can all say is yesterdays standars. My pc is a 1.4Ghz P3 with an IDE drive, etc.
I want to build a new pc soon and I would like to know what and why is there IDE and SATA? What is the difference? What does it mean or stand for?
Any information would be helpful. I assume that a SATA hard drive can only go on a certain motheboard or something?