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ATA TYPES

 IDE/ATA:                 First type of hard disks ,40 MB to 528 MB got introduced.      2. ATA-2 (Fast IDE/Enhanced IDE - EIDE)                         i) Memory size of hard disk & data retrieving speed got increased.           ii)) DMA (Direct Memory Access) is included in hard disk.           iii) DMA - Contacts memory directly without the help of CPU.       3. ATA-3               "SMART" got introduced in ATA-3                SMART - A software to monitor hard disk continuously & warns about the future problems                  in  it.            4. Ultra ATA / 33 - 66 - 100            Faster reading speed eg.,   Ultra  - 33 ----  Data transfer speed of 33 Mbps.