There are three main sorts of disk drive data cables: IDE/PATA, SATA and SCSI.
Hard Drive is connected to the motherboard via an interface cable.
You will see two sorts of cables for ATA hard drives, excluding the floppy drive cable type.
USB is that the commonest connection type for external devices, whether external disk drive , thumb drives, flash drives, printers, cameras, all types of other.
There are various different SATA cable types, ranging SATA cables also are available for internal drives.