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.

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 ...

I bought a 200GB Western Digital Caviar SE hard drive just recently, but I'm having trouble getting it to work on my computer.<BR><BR>It's an SATA drive, which I didn't realize when I bought it ...

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There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

To inject some new life into my system, I'm changing the primary drive from some plain 5400rpm PATA drive to a 7200rpm SATA drive. At the same time I will be upgrading from XP to Vista Ultimate (yay ...

SSDs are now the norm in computers. With older laptops and desktop PCs, the low capacity of the original SSD is usually the main reason for an upgrade, with the old SSD replaced by one with more space ...

If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

They are fast enough for most workloads, and more affordable at high capacities ...