Data Recovery Glossary > Ribbon Cable

Ribbon cable, as the name indicated is a flat, thin cable containing of parallel conducting wires. Ribbon cable is commonly used for antennas and IDE devices. In computers, they are used within a computer chassis to connect disk drives to the disk drive controllers. Since ribbon cables are flat shaped, they are used in conditions to conserve space.

Ribbon cable have a bunch of wires placed parallel to each other on a flat plane, as a result the cable is flat shaped and not round like any ordinary one. It has a connector at each end of the cable and another of two-thirds of the distance from the motherboard connector. It is used to connect the computer internal peripherals like SCSI, ATA and IDE devices. The popular connectors used with ribbon cable are BT224 connector, PCB transition headers, D-subminiature connector and DIL headers.

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