Besides fluid bearings, higher RPMage, higher cache buffers, and higher capacity, what advances in conventional IDE ATA drives have come about in recent memory? Also, have I listed all the major ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Barely six months after the first version of the Serial ATA hard-drive interface was announced--and before products based on it are available--work is under way on version 2. Fully ...

Incorporating a SATA (serial ATA) interface with a 300-Mbps burst data-transfer rate, the Caviar SE16 hard drives also feature a 16-Mbyte cache. The hard drives have a 7200-rpm speed and a 250-Gbyte ...

Serial ATA (SATA) is a natural evolution of the ATA specifications used in most hard drives today. SATA-based hard drives are software-compatible with ATA drives, meaning they work with the same ...

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 companies, which include ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Serial ATA hard drive owners now no longer actually need a Serial ATA compatible computer to use their drives. Novac has introduced the “SATA HDD Connect Kit USB,” a cable for connecting naked 3.5″ ...

Union City, Calif.-based FirmTek on Tuesday announced its new SeriTek/1EN2 Serial ATA external drive enclosure, which is shipping now. Each of its two 3.5-inch bays can be locked with a key and offers ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has been the most successful peripheral interface in the history of PCs. USB 2.0 is poised to succeed the first generation and offers particular benefit to the mass ...