Serial-ATA add-in cards should be plentiful by the end of this year, but the schedules for Serial-ATA integration in PC, workstation, and server core logic are nebulous at best (see “Controller ...

If you're getting into the storage game, even on a locally-attached basis, there are a number of options from which to pick when it comes to the way that you will connect your storage. In this article ...

Interface technology for connecting storage devices to client apps promises increased performance. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment is an emerging standard electronic interface technology. SATA ...

"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 ...

The arrays, which use the same ATA hard drives used in most desktop PCs, are also finding their way into disk-to-disk backup solutions as customers look to speed their backup and recovery processes ...

A consortium of companies wants to build on the progress of the Serial ATA hard drive interface in PCs by creating a similar offering for consumer electronics devices. The CE-ATA interface involves ...

In 2003, the storage industry has taken major steps in transitioning from a decades-old interface technology to one that will potentially revolutionize the way new hard disk drives (HDDs) are designed ...

It was a rising star in data storage. The technology promised new data speeds for desktop and laptop PCs, pencil-thin cables and power-thrifty electrical designs that would spawn a generation of ...

Serial ATA is nice, but the advantage of smaller, more flexible cabling isn't advantageous if a parallel ATA cable is still needed for the optical drive. For a typical system with a one hard drive ...

One of the big advantages of Linux is you don't need all that much buck to get maximum bang. With the advent of serial ATA disk drives and controllers, I thought we might undertake this approach in ...

A pair of Serial ATA products from FirmTek—an adapter and a hot-swappable external enclosure—are making their debuts at Macworld Expo this week. The SeriTek/1SM2 is a Type II 32-bit CardBus host ...