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 ...

Analysts and storage vendors said one of the key benefits of the serial SCSI interface technology that’s due to start being built into disk drives this year is its compatibility with the Serial ...

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 CE-ATA interface involves ...

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 ...

The arrays, which use the same ATA hard drives used in most desktop PCs, are also finding their way into disk-to-disk backup solutions as customers look to speed their backup and recovery processes ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to this KB article, if you want to use any of your old hard drives in a new G5 using a Serial to Parallel adapter, you're out of luck.<BR><BR>Now I am not getting a G5 anytime soon so this ...

Definitions ATA drive, ATAPI drive: A standard, off-the-shelf drive, incorporating an Advanced Technology (as defined by American National Standards Institute group X3T1Q) Attachment /ATA Packet ...