SATA drives also use much smaller connectors and skinnier cables, which makes them nicer to deal with in cramped computer cases. You can buy an SATA card for your G4 MDD that will allow you to use SATA drives, but you won't be able to use those drives if you don't buy an SATA card. -- Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Watson > > 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?