When replacing the hard drive on your older notebook computer, you'll need to know whether the drive is a Serial ATA or Parallel ATA connection. If the notebook is only a few years old, it almost ...

Joni Clark, product marketing manager at Seagate Technology and marketing chairperson for the Serial ATA International Organization, a nonprofit industry group developing SATA specifications, said ...

Parallel ATA, or PATA, hard drives and Serial ATA, or SATA, drives have virtually the same physical characteristics and platter speeds. However, the Serial ATA bus supports much faster data throughput ...

Basically, I am trying to UPGRADE a PATA hard drive carriage with a SATA drive. I need an adapter that's SATA on one side to plug into a small 2.5" hard drive (both power and data), and on the other I ...

The EZ Upgrade notebook hard-drive-upgrade kit uses a dual SATA/PATA interface. Features include a high-speed 2.0 hard-drive enclosure with USB 1.1 compatibility, a USB cable, and the vendor’s upgrade ...

I wish motherboard manufacturers wouldn't consign parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives and the IDE ports they require to the dustbin of history just yet with their "one PATA slot per motherboard" mentality ...

We found this fairly good deal on a 400GB Seagate hard drive over at Outpost.com. The drive is $109 for 400GB, and ships free, which makes this around 27 cents a gigabyte. Mount this up on a cheap ...