For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last ...

"The robustness of the serial ATA protocol will allow this technology to be easily integrated into the enterprise," said Dennis Ball, marketing manager of ExaDrive Networks, a RAID array manufacturer ...

So I screwed up and ordered the wrong external drive enclosure from OWC. I wanted the enclosure that accepts SATA drives, but instead I ordered the one that takes IDE/ATA drives.

Our Power Mac G4 is back from the repair shop and all seems well (see previous item). While the Mac was being fixed, we set up the G4's drive as an external 3.5" FireWire hard drive. Here are some ...

I have a lot of extra hard drives laying around. Some of the drives are SATA and some of them are old IDE drives. I am thinking about getting rack/removable tray to go into one of my 5.25" bays so I ...

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Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

Today we’re looking at the Brando USB to SATA/IDE converter. If you’re testing an unknown drive you have to either use a removable drive rack or an external drive enclosure to run the drive without ...

You can easily to fill up 10GB with MP3 files, digital images, and multimedia projects. So if you haven’t yet upgraded your hard drive, now might be the time. These ...

That was 15 years ago. Today there are many good reasons for upgrading a hard drive. With the recent introduction of new hard-drive technologies such as SATA, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), larger ...

Like Westley in the "Princess Bride" sometimes hard drives are only mostly dead. If you have a drive that appears kaput, you can sometimes retrieve the data off of it using a USB to SATA/IDE connector ...