I'm having a problem with my new Haswell / Z87 build. It was all working perfectly initially, with 4 x SATA II HDs, 1 x SSD (SATA III) and 1 x DVD-RW connected, all to the motherboard SATA connectors ...

You don't have to worry about which serial ATA port you use to connect a device to a motherboard: all the ports run at the same speed. However, every motherboard that supports SATA supports a ...

Before I get into features, let me address the SATA II/SATA 3G/SATA-IO naming issue. SATA II was originally the name of the committee that was formed to extend the original SATA 1.x specifications to ...

Samsung have hammered another nail into platter-based hard-drives with the arrival of its latest solid-state storage. A 2.5-inch drive, the new SSD has a massive 256GB storage and uses the SATA II ...

We all have external hard drives and over the years learned that USB 2.0 never lived up to the needs of mass storage. The transfer rates for USB 2.0 were just too slow to comfortably move large files ...

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PCI Express has come into our PC industry with huge promises and yes, it has delivered. A single PCI Express x1 lane can deliver double the bandwidth of the PCI bus and it's point to point, no sharing ...

There are two ports on the motherboard, and in the BIOS setting, it says “First SATA” and “Second SATA”: what does that mean? I want to buy a SATA II hard drive if the motherboard supports it; can you ...

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Every now and again there a few simple and somewhat useful bits of kit that come onto the market that assist in making slightly older systems and their components work with newer technologies. The ...

Correction: The model of laptop my wife has has a SATA III controller, but Apple supplied only a SATA II drive with it and the controller will not support any of several SATA III-only drives installed ...

I know M.2 drives are faster - but my WD Black also run at least 20 degrees hotter - measured by the temp of the heat sink - than my WD Blue, which stays at room temperature. The speed gain seems ...