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 ...

Fujitsu has announced what it claims is the first line of notebook hard drives using the Serial ATA standard, which boosts data transfer speed, among other improvements. The MHT20xxBH hard-drive ...

Low-cost Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) disk arrays are already gaining ground in near-line storage and disk-to-disk backup applications, but a faster class of drive arrays that uses the new ...

An industry initiative for Serial ATA II was announced this week, so it's natural to wonder where Serial ATA 1.0 is, now that it's been some six months since the new drive specification was finalized.

The emergence of serial ATA (SATA) offers the promise of very large storage arrays with a price/performance ideal for near-line storage of business information, such as archived emails, corporate ...

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"Parallel ATA will go away," predicts Eric Schou, product marketing manager at Maxtor, based in Milpitas, Calif. "That is the reality that is going to happen." But it's not just the vendors who are ...

For companies seeking to store mission-critical data, disk arrays configured with SCSI-attached drives have typically been the only game in town. Lower-cost drives based on the Advanced Technology ...

At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Jose today, Intel Corp., Royal Philips Electronics NV and Silicon Image Inc. demonstrated the applicability of serial advanced technology attachment (SATA), ...

Looks like our harddrives will be a lot faster in the next year. A new standard has been reached, Serial ATA. This new ATA standard allows transfers up to 600MB per second and does away with the old ...

The widespread adoption of the Serial ATA device connection standard may leave you wondering if you have other options. SATA has a few disadvantages when compared to the Serial Attached Small Computer ...

The Serial ATA standard for connecting computer devices has largely replaced older standards, such as IDE. SATA offers several advantages over IDE, such as vastly increased speed and slimmer cables ...