For the better part of a decade now, the traditional interface for hard drives has been Serial ATA (SATA). With the advent of the solid state drive (SSD), new interfaces have come into play designed ...

Hard drives have seen their performance improve more than any other component over the last half-decade, all thanks to the popularization of solid state tech. Now, there’s a big leap forward that ...

I'm planning on expanding storage in my Debian home server and was wondering if someone here could recommend a PCIe SATA controller card. Some details follow: 1) At minimum I'll be needing to connect ...

With the last few chipset releases from Intel, there has been a lack of SATA III capable ports for connecting drives. To get around this, the most common solution was to add a PCI Express card capable ...

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Computer interface standards are slow but surely reducing in number. What will be left standing in the end? It might be USB, PCI Express and Ethernet. PCI Express is absorbing functionality from other ...

According to a report by the German website PCGamesHardware, we will see Intel’s 14nm SkyLake platform revolutionise the PC market. The new Intel platform, based on a second incarnation of the 14nm ...

It's a well-known fact that solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster and superior to old mechanical hard drive disks, which are more commonly called HDDs (via Enterprise Storage Platform). An archaic ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong checks out Apricorn's Velocity Solo x2. The x2 PCI Express card provides two SATA III ports. One is designed for an on-board flash drive. I have looked at products from ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) have greatly increased the efficiency of laptops and hybrids since they’ve been introduced. By doing away with the moving parts found in mechanical drives, thereby increasing ...

In November last year, we gave you a first look at LSI's forthcoming SandForce SF3700 PCI Express SSD Flash controller. It's an impressive silicon integration of both a native PCI Express x4 interface ...