If you're getting into the storage game, even on a locally-attached basis, there are a number of options from which to pick when it comes to the way that you will connect your storage. In this article ...

Apple’s staff gets a little testy when challenged regarding the company’s reliance on parallel ATA (or just plain ATA) for its Xserve servers and Xserve RAID storage arrays. ATA is unquestionably long ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Intel Corp. is lobbying for a shift to serial ATA for storage systems, but some companies are placing their bets on a faster version of today's parallel ATA interface. The companies ...

The Intel P965 chipset, code-named Broadwater, is signaling the end of the road for the outdated parallel ATA (PATA) interface. Instead, Intel is opting to exclusively push the more modern Serial ATA ...

In 2003, the storage industry has taken major steps in transitioning from a decades-old interface technology to one that will potentially revolutionize the way new hard disk drives (HDDs) are designed ...

"Parallel ATA will go away," predicts Eric Schou, product marketing manager at Maxtor, based in Milpitas, Calif. "That is the reality that is going to happen." But it's not just the vendors who are ...

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 ...

We have some 200G parallel ATA drives laying around and want to make a linux <BR>storage server out of them. Does anyone have any recommendations for a <BR>Parallel ATA raid card that works well with ...

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 ...

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