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 ...

The widespread adoption of the Serial ATA device connection standard may leave you wondering if you have other options. SATA has a few disadvantages when compared to the Serial Attached Small Computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just wondering how well, if at all, the oft-discussed Modded BIOS works with the HP N54L Micro Server. I'd like to "unlock" AHCI on the ODD bay SATA connection so I can put a SSD in there to serve as ...