Wow, my first post. Where to start, SO many questions.<br><br>Let's begin with my IT hopes and dreams:<br><br>I am an (amateur) hardware geek and have been trying to work out the "best" setup for me ...

My Google-fu is failing me, so excuse me if this question has been answered in abundance. I recently purchased an Asus P8Z68-V PRO motherboard. This board is equipped with four SATA 3Gb ports and two ...

For system builders, this situation presents a great opportunity to distinguish themselves from Tier One system vendors. While they are still pushing systems with essentially obsolete disk technology, ...

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 ...

The OXU3102 DAS controller combines USB SuperSpeed’s 5-Gbps throughput with dual high-speed SATA hard-disk-drive ports and offers support for USB-attached SCSI (UAS). It also features as many as 27 ...

Seagate announced on Monday the "world's first" 2TB hard drive with full support for the third-generation SATA interface and moving data at 6Gbps, double the rate of previous controllers. The 3.5-inch ...

The OXU3102 DAS controller combines a USB SuperSpeed 5 Gbit/s interface with dual high-speed SATA hard-disk-drive ports. The midrange OXU3101 offers the same features, but bridges to a single SATA HDD ...

When it comes to traditional platter drives, the most innovative company on the block is Seagate. Seagate has many firsts under their belt, more than what I could possibly go into in an article about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although solid state drives have generated the lion’s share of buzz in the storage space these last few years, traditional hard drives with spinning media continue to be a mainstay of the industry, ...