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 ...

Low-cost Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) disk arrays are already gaining ground in near-line storage and disk-to-disk backup applications, but a faster class of drive arrays that uses the new ...

Released yesterday afternoon, Mac OS X 10.2.4 has already become a heavily discussed incremental update. As usual, the reports are split. In the problems category, complaints range from minor ...

For most of the last 15 years, the most popular hard drive standard in existence for desktop workstations has been the ATA standard. Unless you haven’t cracked the case of a computer since before IBM ...

In this issue of Industry Insider, Linus Wong, our guest columnist from Adaptec Storage Solutions, traces the origins of Serial ATA (SATA), a relatively new connectivity interface. It was a rising ...

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 ...

One important characteristic of SATA is rarely mentioned: built-in compatibility with parallel ATA. Using an inexpensive adapter, you can connect an old ATA disk drive, or any other parallel ATA ...

Jamie Riis, CIO of Miami-based Bayview Financial Trading Group LP, last June replaced his company’s 1TB optical jukebox with a 12TB, ATA-based NearStore R100 storage appliance from Network Appliance ...