Joni Clark, product marketing manager at Seagate Technology and marketing chairperson for the Serial ATA International Organization, a nonprofit industry group developing SATA specifications, said ...

When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have windows vista running on this system which has no problem with correctly designating drives in proper driv letter order, however the SATA drive which bears the operating system is only ...

The EZ Upgrade notebook hard-drive-upgrade kit uses a dual SATA/PATA interface. Features include a high-speed 2.0 hard-drive enclosure with USB 1.1 compatibility, a USB cable, and the vendor’s upgrade ...

Basically, I am trying to UPGRADE a PATA hard drive carriage with a SATA drive. I need an adapter that's SATA on one side to plug into a small 2.5" hard drive (both power and data), and on the other I ...

Western Digital is now shipping its new SiliconDrive III SSD product family based on technology from its March acquisition of SiliconSystems. The company’s new products feature faster read and write ...

Hey folks, the news is moving slow today but there's enough for a decent read. I'm taking valuable time away from a Red Sox game right now, so you better enjoy the news :) WD 320GB PATA HDD @ Hardware ...

When it comes to hard drive storage, despite the hype about PATA, SATA and SCSI, interface is not everything. A lot of it boils down to drivers, and newer doesn't always mean better. PCBurn has done a ...