I have a self-built PC I put together a few years ago in a Fractal Design Arc Midi case. Up till now, it had two drives installed: a 128GB Samsung 830 SSD I was using as the boot partition, and then a ...

A) Do 2.5" laptop SSDs use "Mini SATA"? B) Is 2.5" SATA(as in, the SATA on a 2.5" drive), different dimension connector to 3.5" SATA(as in, SATA on a 3.5" drive)? C) Are all mSATA(micro SATA) and all ...

The face of the datacenter is changing, and radical new approaches are emerging that provide more options for high-performance storage solutions. The size of the server rack has been shrinking quickly ...

SSD is an auxiliary storage device that uses semiconductor memory, and is superior to HDD in terms of read/write speed, quietness, power consumption, and shock resistance. SSDs are further divided ...

The talk of next-gen SSDs really began with the announcement and launch of Intel's Z97 chipset, which brought along support for SATA Express and M.2 connectivity. These were standardised in the SATA 3 ...

The company has been shipping its standard SL500 drives in SATA form for a while now, and they're pretty basic drives, necessarily sitting below the throughput limits of the 6Gbps interface of 500MB/s ...

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 ...