SATA is the abbreviated form of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. The current standard technology for connecting a hard drive or SSD to the rest of the computer. SATA is a single cable with a ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

SSD vs HDD: Comparing speed, reliability, and storage options to help you choose the best upgrade for your laptop’s performance and capacity needs. Pixabay, josemiguels Choosing the right storage ...

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 ...

Overview: SSDs drastically improve boot time, app load speed, and multitasking performance. NVMe drives offer faster data transfer, while SATA drives are more b ...

Those of us in the business of keeping an eye on new technologies wonder why the buzz about SATA 6Gbit/sec. (a.k.a. Serial ATA Revision 3) hasn’t been louder than it is. SATA 6Gbit/sec. is the ...

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) announced a new PCI Express (PCIe)-based interconnect specification that aims to boost interface throughput of solid state drive (SSD) technology ...

When it comes to storage, many of us struggle with the decision of whether to buy speed or capacity. An SSD delivers speed aplenty, but you need a mechanical hard drive for capacity. Buy the SSD and ...

A flash RAM-based SSD gives your PC amazing speed, but it’s expensive by the gigabyte. An old-fashioned, spinning-platter hard drive gives you vast amounts of storage for very little money. But if you ...