Basically, I am trying to UPGRADE a PATA hard drive carriage with a SATA drive. I need an adapter that's SATA on one side to plug into a small 2.5" hard drive (both power and data), and on the other I ...

I was checking out PATA to SATA coneverters when i came across THIS.<BR> <BR>This is the RocketRAID 1540 four-channel RAID host adapter, based on the HPT374 chipset.<BR><BR>What i found cool was the ...

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 ...

Given the different versions of SATA and features that can, but aren't always used, knowing exactly what you're getting can be confusing. Hopefully we can clear some of that up here. The majority of ...

Joni Clark, product marketing manager at Seagate Technology and marketing chairperson for the Serial ATA International Organization, a nonprofit industry group developing SATA specifications, said ...

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 ...

Although SATA drives are not physically compatible with PATA devices, they support the same standards and as such they can communicate either through software (in your operating system) or with an ...