An ATA is what is also known as a "parallel ATA" The other is a "serial" ata, which is supossed to be faster. I don't believe it will work in your MDD On Jan 30, 2008 7:33 PM, Dan A Currie <dancurr at frontiernet.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > What is the difference between ATA and SATA hard drives? > > Will SATA drives work in my G4 MDD? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >