Seagate announced on Monday the "world's first" 2TB hard drive with full support for the third-generation SATA interface and moving data at 6Gbps, double the rate of previous controllers. The 3.5-inch ...

For system builders, this situation presents a great opportunity to distinguish themselves from Tier One system vendors. While they are still pushing systems with essentially obsolete disk technology, ...

The OXU3102 DAS controller combines USB SuperSpeed’s 5-Gbps throughput with dual high-speed SATA hard-disk-drive ports and offers support for USB-attached SCSI (UAS). It also features as many as 27 ...

I had the opportunity to experiment with a bunch of LSI1068E based SAS controllers. As everyone knows, a SAS controller is also fully capable of handling SATA disks. And you get a much better cable ...

Essentially, the Standard SATA AHCI Controller driver, just like every other device driver, is also important since the hard disk is connected to your computer through this driver. The SATA AHCI ...

I have an HP DL380 G6 and a few HP SAS drives that is new and just burning in (so no OS loaded). Out of curiosity and a hankering to get some cheap storage, I took out one of the HP SAS drives from ...

Seagate is readying the introduction of two new types of hard drives, including a pair of 3-TB enterprise hard drives that will not work with today’s systems and a hybrid drive with built-in flash ...

Manufacturers seal hard drives in hermetic rooms to avoid any contamination by particles of dust, a single one of which can completely destroy a hard drive. If you were to open one up, however, you ...

We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded. Now, Apple has released a new firmware update to jack ...

When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...