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Western Digital was the first and only company to release a consumer 10,000 RPM HDD. Since the first Raptor release no other company has even attempted to release a drive with a 10K platter speed that ...

When it comes to hard drives, the choice is much easier. Basically, apart from a few tech specs, the only thing you are looking for in an HDD is size: the bigger, the better. The hard drive is the ...

form-factors, and optimizations for solid state hybrid drives (SSHDs). "SATA technology continues to evolve to accommodate ever-changing storage industry requirements," said Mladen Luksic, SATA-IO ...

Is your hard drive still poking along at 1.5 Gbps? Samsung is now shipping one of the first SATA II hard drives with 3.0 Gbps throughput at about $93 for the 80GB ...

Before I get into features, let me address the SATA II/SATA 3G/SATA-IO naming issue. SATA II was originally the name of the committee that was formed to extend the original SATA 1.x specifications to ...

If you are anything like me, you probably have several hard drives lying around that came from old computers you don't want to throw away and don't want to cram inside your rig on into an enclosure.

There are two ports on the motherboard, and in the BIOS setting, it says “First SATA” and “Second SATA”: what does that mean? I want to buy a SATA II hard drive if the motherboard supports it; can you ...

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 ...

For many years, mechanical-storage devices were the de facto standard for PC data storage, and shopping for your desired drive was as simple as picking a hard-disk of the required capacity. The ...