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On my Kali Linux storage devices,I have SATA and IDE controllers. What is the difference between them? I added kali and created kali.vdi disk on SATA? I sthis the right choice?

Richard Rublev
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The manual explains the differences between IDE and SATA quite well and recommends SATA

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html

Serial ATA (SATA) is a newer standard introduced in 2003. Compared to IDE, it supports both much higher speeds and more devices per controller.
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Like a real SATA controller, Oracle VM VirtualBox's virtual SATA controller operates faster and also consumes fewer CPU resources than the virtual IDE controller
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HBruijn
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IDE is an older, slower protocol, in fact I'm not sure anyone make IDE drives these days, the SATA spec - which is quite old now too - is much faster and more capable, and you can buy the drives too.

Chopper3
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