The Serial ATA standard for connecting computer devices has largely replaced older standards, such as IDE. SATA offers several advantages over IDE, such as vastly increased speed and slimmer cables ...

The SATA data-transfer standard has served the industry well, but hard drive maker WD has a product that demonstrates the shift to the faster PCI Express tech. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

SATA has become the ubiquitous connection to hard drives in both laptops and desktop PCs. SATA is available in two basic forms, internal and external (eSATA). Both forms use seven conductor cables ...

Installing an internal hard drive is one of the more straightforward upgrades out there—and is often a better option than using external drives that may be dropped or misplaced. The process usually ...

256GB is huge in terms of SSD storage, and will probably cost you a small fortune, as such the price obviously isn't listed, go figure. Super Talent has actually released two different 256GB SSD ...

StarTech.com specializes in designing and manufacturing and even selling a number of adapters converting one format to another along with a number of accessories to handle any need you may have. Today ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I told you about Newer Technology’s USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter, a clever product that lets you quickly and easily access data on bare hard drives—specifically, 2.5-inch ...

I recently decided to start using an external SATA hard drive to back up some of my data. After doing some online research, I bought a Vantec NexStar 3 enclosure and Seagate 320GB 7200.10 hard ...

Recently one of my SSDs started acting up; it's the disk I use only for games. It could write at speeds I'd come to expect (500MB/s), but when opening a game, things would slow down to an impossible ...

The face of the datacenter is changing, and radical new approaches are emerging that provide more options for high-performance storage solutions. The size of the server rack has been shrinking quickly ...