There is one upgrade that will universally improve a laptop’s performance: adding an SSD. This is a particularly attractive upgrade for budget laptops, which typically come with a hard drive. That’s ...

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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 ...

Seagate have announced the world's first SATA 6Gbps hard-drive, the Barracuda XT, a huge chunk of 2TB capacity aimed at high-performance workstations. The Barracuda XT 2TB spins at 7,200rpm and is the ...

You don't need a jumper pin on your SATA drive for desktops or servers manufactured after 2002. For older equipment, you can use a jumper on the pins to limit its data transfer rate so it can work ...

Using an external hard drive is a great way to back up what’s most important to you while retaining full access to your data. They're a good way to augment your existinginternal drive storage, and ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

I just recently got a new rig, and now I want to copy some files off of my old IDE HDD onto my new SATA HDD. I've hooked up the IDE and tried jumpering it as "neutral position" "single position" "dual ...

SATA is the abbreviated form of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. The current standard technology for connecting a hard drive or SSD to the rest of the computer. SATA is a single cable with a ...

You see, SSDs come in many shapes and speeds, and picking the right one depends both on the hardware in your machine and what you actually need out of the drive. You can just go for a top-of-the-line ...