While ATAPI has been popularly used in optical disc drives (ODDs), SATA (serial ATA) stands a good chance of replacing the former as the mainstream interface standard for DVD-ROM drives and DVD ...

Although advanced technology attachment packet interface (ATAPI) is the mainstream interface standard for optical disc drives (ODDs) currently, serial ATA (SATA) stands a chance of replacing the ...

My Google-fu is failing me, so excuse me if this question has been answered in abundance. I recently purchased an Asus P8Z68-V PRO motherboard. This board is equipped with four SATA 3Gb ports and two ...

What are PATA and SATA? In this guide we will be discussing the differences between Parallel ATA and Serial ATA, both are types of interface for disk drives in the average desktop PC. Firstly, a ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has been the most successful peripheral interface in the history of PCs. USB 2.0 is poised to succeed the first generation and offers particular benefit to the mass ...

OK, so I have an old project laptop with an IDE/PATA/slim-ATAPI optical drive bay, into which I have inserted a SATA drive caddy with a bridge board. The thing is, the caddy doesn't transfer the drive ...

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 ...

Serial ATA, or SATA, is a relatively new storage technology that is now being adopted in computers. It is the successor to Parallel ATA. SATA allows for faster transfers between the hard disk and the ...