Answer:
From an overall point of view, hard disk interfaces are divided into five types: parallel ATA (PATA, also called IDE or EIDE), SATA, SCSI, Fibre Channel, and SAS.
Explanation:
There are three different kinds of hard drives: SATA, SSD and NVMe.
IDE (pronounced as individual letters) was by far the most common hard disk interface used in PCs from the early 1990s through 2003. IDE is officially designated ATA, but is now often informally called Parallel ATA or PATA, to differentiate it from the new Serial ATA (SATA) interface.
