We had a recent incident in our lab where SATA 6Gb/s performance inexplicably dropped going from one motherboard to the next. In theory, both boards should have offered the same performance on the ...

I am not a neat person. You need only to see my desk to realize that. However, when it comes to my PC case, I keep the cables organized. There are some good reasons to do that–and they have nothing to ...

Recently one of my SSDs started acting up; it's the disk I use only for games. It could write at speeds I'd come to expect (500MB/s), but when opening a game, things would slow down to an impossible ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the same ...

I am using a 2 terabyte 'external' drive for backups. I was using a docking station but to drag and drop all the files to it was looking like forever to get things done. So I took it out of the ...

A security researcher has found a new way to steal data from air-gapped systems by using serial ATA (SATA) cables present inside most computers as a wireless antenna that sends out data via radio ...