The SATA data-transfer standard has served the industry well, but hard drive maker WD has a product that demonstrates the shift to the faster PCI Express tech. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I told you about Newer Technology’s USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter, a clever product that lets you quickly and easily access data on bare hard drives—specifically, 2.5-inch ...

The demonstrations in both the SATA-IO booth 623 and Silicon Image booth 322 at the IDF Technology Showcase highlight the performance capabilities offered by Hitachi's Deskstar 7K500 3 Gb/s drives and ...

Since the output video signal from the GPU became digitized with the invention of DVI, I've started to wonder, why bother with HDMI or DisplayPort at all? The video signal, since it is digital, might ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., February 28, 2005—Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) and Silicon Image, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIMG) today announced plans to conduct a 3 Gb/s Serial ...