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.

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 ...

Ok, so i'm installing a secondary SATA drive (Hitachi Deskstar 400) in a Dell Dimension 8300, and the damn thing won't work. Bios recognizes the secondary SATA drive, but XP doesn't. It found new ...

Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...

The PlayStation 4 Pro is fast, but let’s see if we can make it faster. One of the many improvements the PS4 Pro has over the original 2013 console is the capability to support the high-bandwidth SATA ...

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, ...

It can be frustrating when your hard disk or partition is not detected when installing Windows 11/10 and you get to see an error message that says— We couldn’t ...

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, ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...