Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...

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 ...

I have the connector for an SATA connection to my HDD. I setup the BIOS to read SATA Something as the first drive it reads in the boot sequence. I enabled it in the BIOS settings also. I inserted the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I took off the panel, reseated the SATA connector firmly on both ends, and it booted right up and has worked fine since. Maybe several months. So I am presuming it was indeed the loose cables. Those ...

When building a new PC or home lab server, the immediate assumption is that NVMe SSDs would be the better choice for ...

Before you throw out that old desktop or laptop, consider upgrading its storage. Whether your computer uses a hard drive or an older solid-state drive (or SSD) it’s probably time to upgrade it. SSDs ...

Data is omnipresent. It’s stored on different devices — traditionally on a desktop PC, but now perhaps even more importantly on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. Even though data and ...