For most of the last 15 years, the most popular hard drive standard in existence for desktop workstations has been the ATA standard. Unless you haven’t cracked the case of a computer since before IBM ...

The emergence of serial ATA (SATA) offers the promise of very large storage arrays with a price/performance ideal for near-line storage of business information, such as archived emails, corporate ...

Readers often express concern over the comparative failure rates of serial ATA (SATA) and serial-attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel disk drives. Should buyers be put off if SATA’s failure rate is ...

Serial Attached SCSI or "SAS" as it is commonly known, has been around for a while but it certainly hasn't taken off, especially in the Desktop space, like Serial ATA (SATA). GamePC, one of our ...

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 ...

Heres my dilema, I Built my systems about a year aga (1600+ amd, Gigabyte via266A mobo) I need to upgrade my HD. Which normally wouldnt be a hard choice for me however with the new release of Serial ...

THE MARRIAGE OF networking and storage technologies is not only simplifying the way storage is managed, it also promises to revolutionize the way enterprise storage is used, allowing corporate data to ...

Serial ATA is rapidly taking over from parallel ATA in desktop PCs. James Morris explains why we need this new hard-disk connection One clear recent trend across PCs on all platforms is the arrival of ...

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 ...

The Serial ATA International Organization today, made the third-generation SATA interface official. The new interface provides a 6 Gbps high-speed serial data connection between the system and most of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The serial ATA interface is doubling its maximum data rate to support transfers up to 6 Gbits/second. The group marshalling the spec has also started a logo program to help ensure ...