If you like your gadgets to be functional but without all that fussy “styling” or aesthetic design, the Brando SATA HDD Multi-Media Player Adapter may be for you. This no-frills adapter is literally a ...

While not quite having reached the “dime a dozen” category, external hard drives have certainly proliferated over the past few years. The concept is simple: take a drive that normally has an ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

The rise of flash storage has been a dominant theme in the datacentre in recent years. And rightly so, with performance in the order of 100 times better than spinning disk media. But there are always ...

You see, for most users, SATA SSDs are already fast enough that storage is no longer the limiting factor. Booting Windows, launching applications, loading many games, and general desktop work tend to ...

The widespread adoption of the Serial ATA device connection standard may leave you wondering if you have other options. SATA has a few disadvantages when compared to the Serial Attached Small Computer ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...