DigiTimes reports that industry sources are expecting SATA to replace standard IDE as the format for optical disk drives in 2007. SATA has been extremely popular the last few years as the connection ...

The Serial ATA International Organization said today that a specification eliminating the need for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives to use a separate power connection should be ...

Reason for asking: Two drive cables came with a new motherboard. Embossed on the clip end is "SATA 6 GB/sec". One of the two ends of these, however, has the connector bent at 90°, and for reason of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...