External FireWire Casing: Parallel and Serial ATA, what's the diff??

Hello all.
I plan to get 2x FireWire External Casing and 2x 250Gb ATA Hard Drives seperately. I've done this before but I bought the 2 from the same store which no longer exsist.
This new FW Casing is similar to what OWC is offering:
http://www.memoryworld.com.sg/JetDrive/X9Combo400_main.htm
The specs say "Any single 3.5" Parallel ATA Hard Drive (Desktop size) ATA-6 compatible"
I saw on a local hardware zone site and there are parallel ATA and there are serial ATA
So what are their differences?
So in this case according to the specs, the FW casings would not take (i.e. reject) Serial ATA drives?
Thanks and cheers

SATA and PATA use two different sized connectors and have different data transfer speeds. They are not interchangeable.
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