Anyway, I am curious about one potential difference between SATA and (older) ATA/IDE disks: is there maybe a difference between the two types of drives in terms of moving files/directories around the ...
I'm pretty sure there are only <-ATA33 and ATA66/100 . The first are usually just referred to as IDE cables, the second as either ATA66 or ATA100. The ATA33/IDE cables are almost always Light Gray ...