Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

I've set the BIOS to use only SATA ata devices, but enabled the IDE cdrom on the PATA channels. <BR><BR>I can succefully Fdisk and format the drive with a 98 Boot disk and I'm wondering if there is a ...

Games are getting bigger and bigger, so it's no surprise that people are quickly running out of space on their gaming rigs. If your storage is full to the brim, and you don't want to sacrifice any ...

I want to transfer an original installation that runs on a PATA drive to a SATA disk. If I install the drivers for the SATA interface, and adjust the boot.ini(if needed), and have the SATA come up as ...

In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB ...

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 ...

As most people familiar with the computer industry are aware, solid state drives are slowly taking hold of most people's computers, whether they are from companies like HP or Dell, or if they are ...

The PlayStation 4 Pro is fast, but let’s see if we can make it faster. One of the many improvements the PS4 Pro has over the original 2013 console is the capability to support the high-bandwidth SATA ...

It can be frustrating when your hard disk or partition is not detected when installing Windows 11/10 and you get to see an error message that says— We couldn’t ...