 
Optical Drive
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| Transfer Rate: | Laptop disk drive Connector: | |
| IDE/ATA | 33/66/100/133MB/s | Mini IDE Adaptor /w Power |
| SATA | 1.5Gb/s | Same as Desktop Connector |
| SATA 2 | 3Gb/S | Same as Desktop Connector |
| SATA 3 | 6Gb/S | Same as Desktop Connector |
All SATA HDDs are backward compatible
AHCI/NCQ works with SATA drives only and are supported only on certain motherboards
SATA Connector
IDE Connector