Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

I just built a new system for myself, and one of the new components is a SATA hard drive (plugged directly into the motherboard, no SATA card). I want to clear up my system and get Windows installed ...

So I'm trying to replace a Seagate 200gb with a Western Digital 500gb WD5000KS because I only have 2 SATA slots and the first is my system drive (also a Seagate 200gb). Whenever I try to plug in the ...

Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...

In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB ...

The PlayStation 4 Pro is fast, but let’s see if we can make it faster. One of the many improvements the PS4 Pro has over the original 2013 console is the capability to support the high-bandwidth SATA ...

It can be frustrating when your hard disk or partition is not detected when installing Windows 11/10 and you get to see an error message that says— We couldn’t ...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) come with all kinds of perks over your standard hard drive, not the least of which involves serious speed boosts for your computing. Here's how I installed an SSD in my ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...