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 ...

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 ...

In order to get really clean cabling (read: not having a ton of cables mashed together in my build making everything annoying), i find myself in need of some very specific cables. Specifically, i'm ...

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 ...

The Intel P965 chipset, code-named Broadwater, is signaling the end of the road for the outdated parallel ATA (PATA) interface. Instead, Intel is opting to exclusively push the more modern Serial ATA ...

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 ...

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 ...