Serial-ATA add-in cards should be plentiful by the end of this year, but the schedules for Serial-ATA integration in PC, workstation, and server core logic are nebulous at best (see “Controller ...

Interface technology for connecting storage devices to client apps promises increased performance. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment is an emerging standard electronic interface technology. SATA ...

"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 ...

System administrators are constantly looking for ways to save money on storage equipment while still getting the best possible performance, capacity, reliability and scalability. Performance and ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the big advantages of Linux is you don't need all that much buck to get maximum bang. With the advent of serial ATA disk drives and controllers, I thought we might undertake this approach in ...

At the 2021 SNIA Storage Developers Conference (SDC) there were presentations on many different storage technologies, interfaces, system architectures, computational storage and other topics. This ...

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 ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...