You don't need a jumper pin on your SATA drive for desktops or servers manufactured after 2002. For older equipment, you can use a jumper on the pins to limit its data transfer rate so it can work ...

Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, drives have virtually the same physical characteristics and platter speeds. However, the Serial ATA bus supports much faster data throughput ...

Computer hard drives come in all shapes and sizes. For the most part, they come preinstalled with your computer or laptop. However, there are times when you may need to access them outside of the ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

I ran across this article the other day, and since I’m a DIY geek, it totally caught my interest: ExtremeTech’s guide to building your own switching mechanism for your SATA hard drives. On paper, it ...

In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced today its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA interface, tentatively called SATA3, that offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. Currently most ...

Today Amazon is offering the Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for only $19.99. That's 50% off its $40 MSRP (although we usually see it for around $30) and ...

With due respect, It's not looking good for that drive. Most of the solutions are non-ideal and the part you're looking at won't do a bit of good. If you have the missing part, you may be able to rig ...

The very first Apple silicon Mac Pro is finally here and you can buy one right now starting from $6,999. But if you do, you might want to think twice about installing your SATA hard drives. That's ...

I've slowly started to transition to 7200RPM SATA drives instead of replacing SCSI drives. For everything other than heavy database access, I'm failing to understand the continued popularity of those ...

There are thousands of external computer storage cases on the market. Some are good, some are bad, and we have opinions on which are the best hard drive enclosures for Mac users. Storage is a ...

One nice thing about the G4-based Power Macs was that they had lots of room inside for things like internal hard drives. Then the Power Mac G5 arrived. Sure, the G5 featured improved Serial ATA (SATA) ...