SATA is an abbreviation for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment which is an IDE standard. It is a data access standard interface in modern computers used to transfer data at high rates via compact ...

Essentially, the Standard SATA AHCI Controller driver, just like every other device driver, is also important since the hard disk is connected to your computer through this driver. The SATA AHCI ...

So I recently installed a new 8 TB HDD in my desktop, replacing an old 2 TB HDD in the role of bulk data holder, and it got me thinking: I’m hooking this up via SATA 6 gb/s, as compared to when I ...

In May 2011, SandForce released the first SSD bottlenecked by the SATA III bus. It was just five months after Intel released the P67 Express chipset, Intel's first native SATA III capable release.

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 ...

Seagate announced hot new disk today: a 6 Gbit SATA interface; 64 MB of cache; and 2 TB of capacity. Time to replace your old disk drives? No rush Each of these features is a good thing. But only the ...

SATA II would likely bottleneck a midrange SATA SSD for some types of random reads/writes though. BTW, really, really fast SSDs achieve such blazing fast speeds by leveraging the same principle as ...

A reader asks “is the MacBook Air's use of straight NAND chips in place of a hard disk the beginning of the end for hard drives?” No. It's the beginning of the end for SATA flash drives. Disk on a ...