I installed the WD SSD Dashboard to check the health of my WD NVMe drive. This program also gives stats about WD HDD drives and I noticed that it mentions one of the HDD drives (a Black 1TB SATA III - ...

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 ...

Before I get into features, let me address the SATA II/SATA 3G/SATA-IO naming issue. SATA II was originally the name of the committee that was formed to extend the original SATA 1.x specifications to ...

In most scenarios, storage capacity matters more than peak speed in home servers, and this is where SATA continues to be ...

Unfortunately, outside of using expansion cards, there's not a lot you can do if you wish to add a few more SATA drives to the storage mix. If you're like me and don't wish to outright replace the ...

That’s not always the case, as there are some newer standards available for high-speed drives. But alongside PCIe and NVMe, SATA is still a significant player, especially when it comes to larger-sized ...

It’s probably been a while since you’ve dealt with your computer’s motherboard. You don’t have to, as long as you simply sit at your PC or notebook and carry out everyday tasks. However, if you want ...

In other words, if I already have a system with all six SATA ports taken up (1 SSD boot drive, 1 DVD-RW, and 4 HDDs), would I have to sacrifice any of those devices if I connected an NVMe to my M.2 ...

The growth of the PCI Express (PCIe) interface in compute markets is continuing at a brisk rate, with several analysts forecasting 10% to 40% growth in 2013. The big news is that PCIe solid-state ...

How SAS, Near Line (NL) SAS, and SATA disks compare Your email has been sent Scott Lowe breaks down the differences in reliability and performance between SAS, Near-Line SAS, and SATA drives. When you ...

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), the industry consortium dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of Serial ATA (SATA) technology, today announced the ...

This is possibly the fastest, direct-attached, dual-drive RAID external enclosure you can buy. However, Thunderbolt 3 is pricey overkill for the far slower SATA. USB 3.1 will do the job, and for a lot ...