Recently one of my SSDs started acting up; it's the disk I use only for games. It could write at speeds I'd come to expect (500MB/s), but when opening a game, things would slow down to an impossible ...

SATA is an abbreviation for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment which is an IDE standard. It is a data access standard interface in modern computers used to transfer data at high rates via compact ...

One of the complaints users had about SATA when it first launched, was the connectors. Yes, the new cable design was great for airflow and plugging the connectors in was a doddle. However, they did ...

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 ...

That’s not always the case, as there are some newer standards available for high-speed drives. But alongside PCIe and NVMe, SATA is still a significant player, especially when it comes to larger-sized ...

Reason for asking: Two drive cables came with a new motherboard. Embossed on the clip end is "SATA 6 GB/sec". One of the two ends of these, however, has the connector bent at 90°, and for reason of ...

If you see the "Event ID 51, An error was detected on device during a paging operation" warning in Event Viewer, this article ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the same ...