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 ...

Is Built in Support Better? The discussion so far has revolved around add-on controllers, but these aren’t necessary with AMD boards, as the company’s own SB850 Southbridge natively supports SATA ...

I am using a 2 terabyte 'external' drive for backups. I was using a docking station but to drag and drop all the files to it was looking like forever to get things done. So I took it out of the ...

The Serial ATA standard for connecting computer devices has largely replaced older standards, such as IDE. SATA offers several advantages over IDE, such as vastly increased speed and slimmer cables ...

We had a recent incident in our lab where SATA 6Gb/s performance inexplicably dropped going from one motherboard to the next. In theory, both boards should have offered the same performance on the ...

We're still cautiously optimistic that a new cryptocurrency called Chia (not to be confused with the pet plants) will not actually lead to a shortage of SSDs and HDDs, but seeing this monstrosity of a ...

The most important information to take away from this feature is whether or not it’s beneficial for a motherboard to have SATA 6Gbps ports. If the on-board SATA 6Gbps ports tend to be fast, they will ...