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What are IDE?

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What are IDE?

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IDE refers to “Integrated Drive Electronics”. It is a standard electronic interface between a motherboard’s data bus and the computer’s disk storage devices. The IDE interface is based on the IBM PC Industry Standard Architecture (ISA). Now enhanced version of IDE comes, called Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE). IDE is a standard provided by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in November, 1990. The ANSI name for IDE is Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA). In the process of IDE, a cache memory has been added to speedup the process of reading and writing hard disk drive data. Overall costs decreased and performance increased. It is a bus interface and connector for the IDE cable going to the drive. The Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) is owned by Western Digital and other companies such as Quantum, Maxtor and Seagate use the term ATA. IDE and ATA is the same thing.