eSATA is an external version of the Serial ATA technology used to hook up internal hard disk drives. But despite being a faster, more efficient external storage connection compared to USB, its usage ...

The Serial ATA International Organization said today that a specification eliminating the need for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives to use a separate power connection should be ...

While not quite having reached the “dime a dozen” category, external hard drives have certainly proliferated over the past few years. The concept is simple: take a drive that normally has an ...

Recently one of my SSDs started acting up; it's the disk I use only for games. It could write at speeds I'd come to expect (500MB/s), but when opening a game, things would slow down to an impossible ...

FirmTek LLC has announced it is shipping its SeriTek/1SM2 PC card adapter and SeriTek/2EN2 dual bay enclosure for the Apple PowerBook. The PC card lets PowerBook users add external Serial ATA (SATA) ...

Terabyte Storage Capability, High-Speed Transfers, and TiVO compatibility for Notebook PCs SAN JOSE, CA (April 27, 2006) - Notebook PC users can now have high performance SATA technology, RAID 5 and a ...

Just curious, which would be faster in day to day usage? I can only assume the internally mobo attached SATA port would smoke any external 3.1 device? Only reason I ask is the case I am considering ...

Today we’re looking at the Brando USB to SATA/IDE converter. If you’re testing an unknown drive you have to either use a removable drive rack or an external drive enclosure to run the drive without ...

We had a recent incident in our lab where SATA 6Gb/s performance inexplicably dropped going from one motherboard to the next. In theory, both boards should have offered the same performance on the ...