(1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu.
(2) (Integrated Drive Electronics) A hardware interface widely used to connect hard disks, optical discs and tape drives to a PC. Introduced in 1986 with 20MB of storage, capacities increased a thousandfold in less than two decades. Compared to the SCSI interface, IDE has been the more economical choice.
The IDE interface is officially the AT Attachment (ATA) specification, and "IDE drives" and "ATA drives" are synonymous. The name came from the IBM PC/AT, which was the first PC to use the drives.
IDE เปน มาตรฐานการเชื่อมต่อแบบหนึ่ง นิยมใช้กับ พวก hard disk และพวก optical drives นอกจากนี้ยังหมายรวมถึง controller ของผลิตภัณฑ์ที่เชื่อมต่ออยู่ด้วย