Besides fluid bearings, higher RPMage, higher cache buffers, and higher capacity, what advances in conventional IDE ATA drives have come about in recent memory? Also, have I listed all the major ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Barely six months after the first version of the Serial ATA hard-drive interface was announced--and before products based on it are available--work is under way on version 2. Fully ...

Serial ATA (SATA) is a natural evolution of the ATA specifications used in most hard drives today. SATA-based hard drives are software-compatible with ATA drives, meaning they work with the same ...

Incorporating a SATA (serial ATA) interface with a 300-Mbps burst data-transfer rate, the Caviar SE16 hard drives also feature a 16-Mbyte cache. The hard drives have a 7200-rpm speed and a 250-Gbyte ...

Analysts and storage vendors said one of the key benefits of the serial SCSI interface technology that’s due to start being built into disk drives this year is its compatibility with the Serial ...

A consortium of companies wants to build on the progress of the Serial ATA hard drive interface in PCs by creating a similar offering for consumer electronics devices. The companies, which include ...

A pair of Serial ATA products from FirmTek—an adapter and a hot-swappable external enclosure—are making their debuts at Macworld Expo this week. The SeriTek/1SM2 is a Type II 32-bit CardBus host ...

The arrays, which use the same ATA hard drives used in most desktop PCs, are also finding their way into disk-to-disk backup solutions as customers look to speed their backup and recovery processes ...

Serial ATA is nice, but the advantage of smaller, more flexible cabling isn't advantageous if a parallel ATA cable is still needed for the optical drive. For a typical system with a one hard drive ...

Serial ATA hard drive owners now no longer actually need a Serial ATA compatible computer to use their drives. Novac has introduced the “SATA HDD Connect Kit USB,” a cable for connecting naked 3.5″ ...

Union City, Calif.-based FirmTek on Tuesday announced its new SeriTek/1EN2 Serial ATA external drive enclosure, which is shipping now. Each of its two 3.5-inch bays can be locked with a key and offers ...

A hard drive stores your data, such as files, apps, the operating system, and more of your device. What makes this product unique is that the information continues to be stored inside of it even if ...