I just built a new system for myself, and one of the new components is a SATA hard drive (plugged directly into the motherboard, no SATA card). I want to clear up my system and get Windows installed ...

Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB ...

So I'm trying to replace a Seagate 200gb with a Western Digital 500gb WD5000KS because I only have 2 SATA slots and the first is my system drive (also a Seagate 200gb). Whenever I try to plug in the ...

Disk access times can make a big difference in many applications, with the bulk of this cost coming from a hard drive's seek time, rotational time and transfer time delay. Free software can test the ...