These are the industry's first 1.8" hard drives with a low-insertion force (LIF) SATA (Serial ATA) connector, enabling a 10% smaller footprint compared to normal 1.8" HDDs using microSATA connectors.

Talk about clever. StarTech’s 35SAT225S3R (available for $60 on Amazon) looks just like a 3.5-inch hard drive, but is actually a two-bay RAID enclosure for 2.5-inch drives. Those drives can be ...

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 ...

Drive Controller: Serial ATA 6Gb/s Host Controller: Intel Skylake PCH-H DT/WS - SATA AHCI Controller [D1] Drive Model: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 Drive Firmware Revision: 05.01D05 Drive Serial Number ...

An in-depth comparison and review of various SATA to USB external hard drive enclosures, examining their features, performance, and whether they truly differ or offer similar value for users.

In 2008 SATA was the standard for PC and laptop hard drives and SSDs however we are now moving beyond SATA. Of particular interest are M.2 drives that support the latest NVMe protocol.

Nowadays, it is widely used for magnetic hard drives and SSDs in 2.5-inch format as well as for the M.2 slot. In the case of SSDs, it is becoming less and less popular and is being replaced by PCI ...

The late-2011 MacBook Pro supports SATA III—but Apple included only a SATA II hard drive (HDD), which may have been for cost reasons, but also should have been a clue.